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who should be apprehended by the Canton Government.
Shataukok
is a village, half of which is in British territory and half in
Chinese. Wong Chun-wa makes frequent incursions into the
British part of the village, and then dashes back to Chinese
territory. The Hongkong Government cannot catch him because of
this, and His Excellency sincerely hopes that the Canton
Government will take action against this man and others of his
Representations have been made to the Canton Government
type.
two or three weeks ago on this matter.
The pirates, after having pirated steamers, take them to
a point at Bias Bay where the water is too shallow for the
steamers to go further. They then get to the shore by boats.
The inhabitants of the whole stretch of land called "Nim Shan
Wan" are lawless people.
steamers.
or more
They prey upon junks as well as
Fourteen steamers have been pirated in that locality;
人
but there are numerous seizures of junks which occur almost
daily, but which do not get into the newspapers which usually
only report piracies on steamers.
The reason why His Excellency
a
brings up this question is that he is soon going away on holiday
on
A
and he would like to press it for the consideration of General
Li before he leaves. This is a delicate matter, and may
prejudicially affect the good relations now happily subsisting
between Canton and Hongkong, and His Excellency desires to avoid
this.
MR. LUK, when asked by Dr. Kotewall whether he has heard of a
protest sent by Mr. C. C. Wu against the British independent
operations at Bias Bay, says that he has heard of such a protest,
but he believes that the Canton Government understand.
He
says that the Canton Government are as equally anxious to avoid
any possibility of bad feeling between the two places, and that
they may begin the work of cleansing Bias Bay of pirates before