CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 205

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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he points out can only be within the limits of the laws he cites, and Registration, to the Ministers Superintendents of Trade for the 1 or thern and Southern Ports, to the respective Governors General of the Two- Kwang and Fuh Kien,

as also

to take these measures into consideration

and drow up a code of Regulations to that end reporting.

by

the same :-

As the Senior Nawal Officers

no means in accord as to

the best means of dealing with the subject it seems desirable that the

Representatives in Peking should

again take into consideration the whole question of Piracy and the

steps it may be most expedient to adopt for its suppression in concert with the Chinese Authorities.

There are live dangers chiefly

to be guarded against it would appear in

any measures that may be ultimately taken for the suppression of Piracy in these waters - the one

its extension into the interior, as the result of any successful effort to drive the Pirates which now infest

the Coast from their sea line; where

they might become a

than ever.

greater evil and or new source of

donger to the Government _ the

other that

any

active cooperation

of Foreign Ships of War to enforce

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