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taken and asking them to co-operate in their territory.
During the montl. 750 tons of coal was provided
by the Hongkong Government as a contribution towards
the anti-pirate campaign. This coal was delivered to
General Li's representative at Yungki. Further supplies
will be sent either there or to Canton consigned to the
General's representatives, but not to any of Dr. Sun's
departments.
There have been a few isolated cases of piracy
during the month, all except two being on the main west
River. The Delta itself has been practically free of
piracy but there are signs of it starting again in the
East River area; this is chiefly the work of undiscipli-
ned troops from tile Kwangsi and Kdangsi provinces.
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Most of the West River piracies were cases of
internal piracy, the pirated craft being met later by a
cirato launch. - There are still neveral of these pirate
launches at large in tie leong Shan and South West River
areas,
three have also been reported in the East River
district but they move about contiruously via the smaller
creeks which gunboats cannot navigate and so escape all
observation. Fortunately, "Robin" whilst proceeding up
the Sallam Channel on 28th Septenter came across two
launches which had attacked the liong Kong Shekki tow
shortly before-hand. One, the S/L "Hanply", owned by
Rafeek of hongkong was re-captured and casualties inflict-
ed on the escaping pirates. The other, the B/L "Tin
Fook" attempted to escape up a small creek but was fol-
lowed by "Robin" and sunk by gunfire.
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The "Tin Fook" was one of the so called Military
launches which has been in the hands of piratical soldiery
for some time and was badly wanted. Until systematic
searches up all the many little creeks can be carried out,
there is small chance of exterminating these launches. To