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GENERAL No. 10948.
C.R. No. 9218.
THE INSPECTORATE GENERAL OF CUSTOMS.
SHANGHAI OFFICE
421 Hart Road,
Shanghai.
sir,
3rd October, 1935.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No. 1034 of the 31st August, 1935:
Suggesting the issue of certain instructions to
the vessels and stations of the Chinese Maritime
Customs in order to give practical effect to the
scheme for establishing intercommunication with
the ships of the Royal Kavy as a step towards the
solution of the piracy problem :
and, in reply, to thank you for your communication and
to inform you that the necessary instructions are being
issued.
I trust that mutual co-operation on the part
of our respective services will become an important
factor leading to the gradual extinction of piracy
along the China Coast.
I have the honour to be,
81r,
Your obedient servant,
(sd.)...................
INSPECTOR GENERAL OF CUSTOVS.
Sir Frederic G. Dreyer, K.G.B., C.B.E., R.N.,
British Naval Commander-in-Chief,
China Station.