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Your Excellency's attention to the fact of the Prata Shoals being perhaps the most dangerous spot on the whole coast of China, the natural perils of which are aggravated by the lawless conduct of those Chinese who lie in wait there for shipwrecked vessels and who plunder any craft that may be stranded there of everything it contains.
It is obviously right that measures should be taken toward insuring a fulfilment of the 20th Article of the Treaty of Tientsin; and the undersigned perceives that Your Excellency has issued orders in this sense to the authorities of the Lungmen military division and of the district of Ho-pu.
If these instructions can indeed be carried actively into effect, there would undoubtedly be no reason to fear for the future safety of shipwrecked vessels, neither would the masters or owners of vessels have reason to urge claims for compensation against the Chinese Government on the score of neglect of duty on the part of its functionaries;
but it must be borne in mind that the Prata Shoals lie at a distance of many hundred of miles from the coast of Kuangtung where the officials named