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Arising out of the piracy of the S.S."Tean",
the 0.A.G.'s report on which is contained in No.37,
a claim for compensation from the Chinese Government
has been submitted by the owners. The Foreign
Office, however, have declined to approve the
submission of the claim, partly on the legal
ground that the piracy did not take place in Chinese
waters and partly on the practical grouna that
the Chinese authorities in this case acted with
reasonable energy.
(It will remembered that a
Chinese vessel arrived on the scene promptly enough
to recapture most of the prisoners and some of the
loot).
This certainly seems the wisest course
as