No.1762 (29/68/1935)
Copy to: nip Mission,
Shanghai,
Canton,
BRITISH EMBASSY,
PEKING.
End. December, 1935.
C-in-C.,
Hongkong
Sir,
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Letter from C-in-C of 12/
11/1935.
With reference to my despatch No.485 of
the 28th March, transmitting a copy of a memoran-
tum from the Wai Chiao Pu in which were set out
the regulations under which the Chinese Maritime
Customs preventive vessels would assist in the
suppression of piracy, I have the honour to report
that I was subsequently informed by the Commander-
in-Chief, the China Station, that he had reason to
believe that Sir Frederick Maze the Inspector Gen-
eral of the Chinese Customs held different views
from the Wai Chiao Pu as to the extent to which the
Chinese Maritime Customs would be prepared to coop-
orate in this matter.
2.
In reply to enquiries made by His Majesty's
Consul-General at Shanghai, at my request, with a
view to clarifying the position, Sir Frederick Maze
expressed a cautious and somewhat indefinite willing-
ness to cooperate with the British Navy "as may be
feasible in the circumstanceB”. In informing Sir
The Right Honourable
Bir Samuel Hoare, 0.C.S.I.,G.B.E., C.M.G.,
etc.,
etc.,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
etc.,
/Frederic.