APPENDIX I.
GOVERNOR HONG LONG TO SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.
0.0. No. C.15383.
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HONG KONG.
30th June, 1926.
Enc: No.1.
I have the honour to invite your attention to ry
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secret despatch of the 20th January last, concerning the
capture of s.s. Tung Chow by Bias Bay pirates, and particular-
ly to the sixth paragraph, from which you will see that
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on the 9th January Mr. Fu Peng-sheung, then Commissioner of
Foreign Affairs at Canton, wrote that this outrare "should
be dealt with by the Nationalist Government themselves, who
would certainly be able to exterminate these pirates.
Moreover, they had already begun to move in the metter, end
there was no need for foreign assistance".
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Not only has no attempt whatever been made from
that day to this by the Canton Government to exterminate the
Bias Bay pirates, but, since the seizure of s-s. Tung Chow,
three more piracles have been committed by the Bias Bay
gang, I attach a report by Kr. T.H. King, Deputy Super-
intendent of Police, describing these piracies. Bias
Bay is a sort of "No Man's Land", in which the writ of the
Canton Government does not run, and which is dominated by
pirates and brigands from the large village of Fan Lo Kong
at the North East corner of the bay.
Not reproduced.
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