COPY.
6 enclosures.
No. 169.
(and 1 copy)
Mr. Brenan to Sir Miles Lampson.
Copies to:- F.O. No. 106.
Hongkong No. 457. 0. in 0.
Commodore, Hongkong.
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H.B.M. CONSULATE GENERAL,
CANTO N.
October 31st, 1928.
In view of the messages contained in your telegram
to me No. 146 of the 27 October and your telegram to the
Foreign Office No. 1209 of the 29th October, it is perhaps
as well that I should report more fully than I have done
hitherto the efforts which I made to induce the Canton
authorities to take action against the "Anking" pirates.
2. My despatch No. 158 of the 4th October described
my first interviews with the naval headquarters and the
Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in respect of this case.
On the 5th October I received a communication from the
Officer Administering the Government (copy enclosed) conveying
the information that the pirates were believed to be on
cortain islands at the entrance to Bias Bay and asking that
the Canton Government should send naval forces to assist the
local Chinese police in their capture. It was also suggested
that Canton should ask for British naval co-operation in the
expedition. I received this communication shortly before I
was due to attend a reception at the Portuguese Consulate-
General in honour of the Portuguese national day. AS I
expected to meet the higher Chinese officials at the reception,
I had a memorandum prepared in Chinese embodying the informa-
tion received from Hongkong and containing the request for
Co-operative action.
His Majesty's Minister,
3./
Peking.