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6. I am further to remind you that the
view of H.M. Government has been that it is the
responsibility of the shipping companies themselves to
take the necessary precautions against "internal piracy",
1.e., disturbances arising on board their ships, though
as in the past, H.M. Ships will always be ready to
render such assistance as may be in their power,
consistently with their other duties, in quelling such
disturbances. The cost of any such precautions must
therefore fall upon the companies.
7. My Lords understand that, as a
temporary measure, an offer has been made to supply
guards from the garrison at Shanghai for British ships
from Shanghai to Tientsin. The War Office, however,
can only agree to this arrangement for a strictly
limited time until other arrangements can be made by
the companies and on the condition that the full cost
of the guard is recovered from them. [It is realised
that, prior to the 1st April 1930, guards were provided
for ships trading to South China under conditions which
included the repayment of "out of pocket" expenses only,
but this was entirely an emergency arrangement.]
8. Finally, on the subject of grilles,
I am to observe that, as far back as July and August
1933, after the NANCHANG affair, the British Consul
General at Shanghai, at the instance of the Naval
Commander.