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for being given an opportunity to take advantage of Mr. Watson's presence in this country to have a heart to heart talk with representatives of the Departments concerned in the matter of Piracy in waters adjacent to Hong Kong which was a matter of vital concern to the officers of ships plying in those waters: and Sir G.

Grindle expressed the hope that a frank talk and a

joint examination of the practicability of various

measures which had been suggested for dealing with this

matter would clear the air and would no doubt go far

towards indicating the lines on which the problem

could be solved.

2. For convenience the resolutions recorded in

the letter of the 4th of February 1924 from the China Coast Officers Guilds to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, read in conjunction with the revised Piracy

Regulations, were taken as the basis for the discussion.

Acopy of these resolutions is attached.

3.

It was agreed that Resolutions (1) (2) and (3)

were in fact mutually dependent and amounted to a recommendation that the defensive measures at present laid down in the Piracy Regulations, should be replaced completely by a system of effective Naval patrols throughout the Danger Zone.

As a preliminary to the consideration of this

suggestion, there was some discussion as to whether

the Guilds had any objection in principle to the

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