CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 203

2.

200

agresing with those of the British Admiral which had been concurred

Com

in with slight modifications by i Admiral Rose and more or, less

apllely by the Butch Senior Officer. In reference to the first. proposition of Sir Henry Keppel, Admiral Bell thinks the disarmament

grave

should be absolute and extend even

to small arms and considers any right of search to be conceded to Foreign Mew of War, open to grow -objections, to which proposal the Chinese Government are not prepared. to accede, and in general that all measures of repression should be left entirely in the hands of the

Chinese. In lieu of any active intervention by Foreign Ships of War, Admiral Bell proposes that for any

piracy committed on European Vessels within 30 miles of the Cost of China (excepting such as occur within 3

Nautical miles of Hong Kong

Medodo)

our

indemnity should be poid out of the Mustoms Revenue, the amount to be adjudged by a mixeds Court held at the Treaty Fort nearest to the Spot where such act of Firacy shall have taken plass.

In brief then, the disarmament of the junks _ complete or partial_ System of registration and the limitation of the numbers of the Crew,