IMMEDIATE
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In Dammelevelion
(dublicas),
(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT).
SECRET.
O.D.C. No. 453.
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COMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
OVERSEA DEFENCE COTITTEE.
PIRACY IN CHINA WATERS.
(Note by the Secreta y).
The Colonial Office have referred to the Oversea
Defence Committee for consideration as a matter of
urgency the attached telegram from the Officer
Administering the Government of Hongong on the
question of anti-piracy measures to be taken by the
shipping companies after the 31st March next.
2. A meeting to consider this question will take
place at No. 2, Whitehall Gardens, S. W. l,, on Monday,
3rd March, 1930, at 3.15.p.m.
3, The Board of Trade have been asked to send
a representative, and Sir William Peel, the new Governor
of Hong long, is also being invited.
2, Whitehall Gardens,
S. W. 1. 27th February, 1930.
(sd) G. N. Macready.
Secretary,
Oversea Defence Committee.