CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868 — Page 324

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warlike weapons.

The

Admnial accepted.

this

ی ناک

anangement

satisfactory and offered

the services

Her Majesty's gunboats to assist in

conjunction with the Imperial Forces

in arresting all fishing

Those

vessels

of douttful character having

on board. This

arrang

ement was

looked upon both by Ster Majesty's

Consul at Canton and by the Invernon

of Story Kong good results.

upon the

as

likely to lead to

Staving thus torched

measures.

actually adopted wish

which have been

the

view to the

discouragement of piracy, I will now

proceed to state to

to your

Exxcellency

what

what

are

Government

measures

the pinions of Ster Majesty's

to

any

Mrze

such as

extended

arl

advocated in

your Excellency's letter.

In the first place with

regard to the register of

Chinese

junks which has already been

acceded to by the Chinese authorities

The Inds

g

the Admiralty have

expressed their opinion that there

can be

question of

he value of

a

reliable

and that

y

rejister,

regular papers shewing the time

port to which the vessel belonged to each ship registered.

were

given

and numbered it would facilitate The duties

of any

vessels

of war

employed

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