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(5).
vessols should be provided, existing Launches should be offectively re-armed and protected
by steel shields, etc., and Launch Officers
should be given authority to fire on junks
refusing to stop for search, etc.;
The Inspector General should be authorised to
dotach a Commissioner to investigate local conditions at all the places named (2), and
draw up proposals for consideration, and for
the ultimate approval of the Government.
If Tecessary, the Inspector General will visit
Hong Kong and Lappa in connection with the
proposud re-organisation of the Customs'
Preventive Launch Service, etc., in the Kowloon and Lappa Districts; and will, furthermore,
make perbain representations to the local Govern- ments concerned with a view to sccuring, if possible, facilitics calculated to strengthen China's protection f her "lovenie.
Shanghai, 2han Sumo, 1929.
June,
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