aclosure No. 1 in Canton despatch No. 88 of June 12th, 1928.
Translation.
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From Commissioner for Foreign Affairs,
Canton.
June 8th, 1928.
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sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter on the
subject of the piracy of the S.S. "Tean" in Bias Bay in which you
aek that some way of suppressing the evil and preventing such
unfortunate incidents be found.
I communicated the circumstances to the 8th Army Headquarters
and asked that satisfactory measures should be taken and am now
in receipt of the following reply:-
"After this incident occurred this Headquarters ordered the
warship "Chungshan" on the 29th May to go to Bias Bay to suppress
the pirates and instructed the commander of the Navy speedily to
despatch naval and military forces to the spot and station them at
important places. Orders were also given to the 18th Division to
send a force to suppress the pirates. A telegram has now been
received from the Commander of the "Chung-ahan", Tsou Chen Lan,
stating that his ship that day searched the sea at Aotou and that
on the following day he proposed to go to the region of Hachung
and Pan To Kong and patrol those waters.
Lee Mu Tz'a, the officer commanding the 18th Division telegrap
that Teng Chung Sheng of the Yao Regiment was ordered to move his oump to Nim Shan and 'ing doi and it was intended to order the
52nd. Regiment at Tamshui to move to Nim Shan. Commander Teng of
the 2nd Ying of that Regiment is to remain at P'ing Hoi and Um
Li asks that the Davy should be instructed to send a warship
to remain at Um Kai under the orders of the Regimental
Kai.
Headquarters in order to rid the sea of the evil.
It is roquested that the British Consul-General be informed
of the above".
(Signed) CHU CHAO-HSIN.