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safety of Foreign Vessels and Commerar to a limited extent, and may at no distant period render the Chinese

Seas utterly

unarmed

vizable by Ships and safe for none, and so go Your to destroy a Forrige Trade of great magnitude and value:_-

As this is a result not to be

contemplated by

any

Some course of action

Foreign Tower

must be

determined, upon in concert with the Chinese Government, which

is bound by treaties and international

low to maintain the pease

security of

it's

own deas.

and

On their part disarmament

and registration.

more or

less.

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complete and prompt according to the power and means of the Chinese Government,

be the first step.-

appears

to

Some effective guarantee that the two free ports of Hong Kong

and Medano shall not be allowed. to Shelter pirates or afford them any facilities for refilling and armament or the disposal of their

plunder, seems the second.

part of Foreign Powers._

ow the

The third in order of importance

would be the organization, in connection with the preventive Service

and Maritime Customs, of small Cruisers in the form of

effective