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was captured on December 18th, 1925, by pirates
dinguised as passengers and taken to Biss Bay;
that during the first six months of 1926 three
subsequent acts of piracy were perpetrated on
British vessels by the pirates who had their
headquarters at that spot; that on Hovember
15th, 1926, occurred the case of the "unning",
referred to above, and that further piracies
of British ships were carried out on the 27th
Jamary, 21st March and 6th August 1927. The
Chinese authorities were unfortunately unable,
in the conditions the prevailing, to take any
effective aetion to put an end to this state of
affairs, and it was to their inability to do so
that this serious and unchecked rearudescence of
piratioal activity must be attributed.
5.
Having regard to this series of out-
Tages on British ships, and to the terms of
article 55 of the Creaty of Tientsin, repented
representations were nade on behalf 1 His
Lajesty's