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to board them in port and wait until they are on the high
Seas before acting. But the nature of the orine is
exactly the same - the violent seizure of a vessel with
the object of robbery. To say that this is not piracy is
about the same as saying that murder is not murder because
it is done with poison and not with a hatohet.
H. h. Legation,
Peking.
10th January 1920.