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scoundrel,

evade Customs duty & Likin, &

from pirates and smugglers

every

they band

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distinct class.

effective measures

forming

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"Kwany Ngan", "Hai Chin Ching" &

Hai

Jung

Chi

"

and

with

my

written authority, to make a thorough search in Chinese waters from Hongkong to Macao

It is just possible that to

arrest the criminals

escape

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are

not taken

to make

E

clean sweep of

this

time

Joes

China

land

and

lawbreaking class, as

on

the Subjects of

id

All countries must all equally The interests at stake

suffer.

are

of

no

outlaws of

Common

mean importance;

this sort are

the

enemies of every

nation

detached

I have specially Brigadier General with a

large

staff of officers (names and rank

in detail) to take the

given steamers "Peng Chao Boi", "Shich Chung", "Chen Jung", "Chick Asi", "Kwany

may slip away

02

And

hide on

water within foreign

boundaries. It

It is

that

necessary

Your Country should despatch soldiers & Police to help in their

arrest,

be effective.

thus

only

will the raid

I shall therefor

be

very

if you

will

much obliged if

express to the Governor of

Hongkong my hope that whenever any of the Brigadier General's Command bearing my

written

Authority