CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12] — Page 17

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see by the joint letter of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Company and other merchants in Canton contracts made with Silk manufacturers in Europe have been broken, to their serious loss by the non-delivery of the silk for which they had contracted with Chinese merchants, unable through the insecurity of the river to forward the produce.

2. It is evident that this great injury to trade can only be remedied by affording protection to the Chinese producer and whatever steps the Chinese Government may be able to take on land to suppress the bands of robbers, on the river it would appear to be powerless.

3. To afford adequate protection on the river and its affluents it would be necessary to secure constant supervision by considerable increase in the number of boats of light draught of the "Sandpiper" class with smaller armed boats to enable piratical boats to be pursued into the shallow creeks to which they retire.

4. Although one or two foreign craft have been attacked in the West River, notably the steamer plying between Macao and Sam-shui which on the 20th July, 1899, was pirated, the purser, a Portuguese, being shot and seriously wounded, These attacks are usually made upon Chinese vessels. The modus operandi is almost always the same. At a given point a boatful of armed men board the junk, or call upon the steamer

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14 see by the joint letter of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Company and other merchants in Canton contracts made with Silk manufacturers in Europe have been broken, to their serious loss by the non-delivery of the silk for which they had contracted with Chinese merchants, unable through the insecurity of the river to forward the produce. 2. It is evident that this great injury to trade can only be remedied by affording protection to the Chinese producer and whatever steps the Chinese Government may be able to take on land to suppress the bands of robbers, on the river it would appear to be powerless. 3. To afford adequate protection on the river and its affluents it would be necessary to secure constant supervision by considerable increase in the number of boats of light draught of the "Sandpiper" class with smaller armed boats to enable piratical boats to be pursued into the shallow creeks to which they retire. 4. Although one or two foreign craft have been attacked in the West River, notably the steamer plying between Macao and Sam-shui which on the 20th July, 1899, was pirated, the purser, a Portuguese, being shot and seriously wounded, These attacks are usually made upon Chinese vessels. The modus operandi is almost always the same. At a given point a boatful of armed men board the junk, or call upon the steamer

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14 see by the joint letter of Messrs.Jardine Matheson and Company and other merchants in Canton contracts made with Silk manu- facturers in Europe have been broken, to their serious loss by the non-delivery of the silk for which they had contracted with Chinese merchants, unable through the insecurity of the river to forward the produce. 2. It is evident that this great injury to trade can only be remedied by affording protection to the Chi- nese producerand whatever steps the Chinese Government may be able to take on land to suppress the bands of robbers, on the river it would appear to be powerless. 3. To afford adequate protection on the river and its affluents it would be necessary to secure constant OL supervision by considerable increase in the number of boats of light draught of the "Sandpiper" class with smaller armed boats to enable piratical boats to be pursued into the shal- low creeks to which they retire. 4. Although one or two foreign craft have been attacked in the West River, notably the steamer plying between Macao and Sam-shui which on the 20th.July, 1899, was pirated, the purser, a portuguese, being shot and seriously wound- ed, These attacks are usually made upon Chinese vessels. The modus operandi is almost always the same. At a given point a boatful of armed men board the junk, or call upon the steamer

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see by the joint letter of Messrs.Jardine Matheson and Company

and other merchants in Canton contracts made with Silk manu-

facturers in Europe have been broken, to their serious loss by

the non-delivery of the silk for which they had contracted

with Chinese merchants, unable through the insecurity of the

river to forward the produce.

2. It is evident that this great injury to

trade can only be remedied by affording protection to the Chi-

nese producerand whatever steps the Chinese Government may be

able to take on land to suppress the bands of robbers, on the

river it would appear to be powerless.

3. To afford adequate protection on the river

and its affluents it would be necessary to secure constant

supervision by considerable increase in the number of boats

of light draught of the "Sandpiper" class with smaller armed

boats to enable piratical boats to be pursued into the shal-

low creeks to which they retire.

4. Although one or two foreign craft have

been attacked in the West River, notably the steamer plying

between Macao and Sam-shui which on the 20th.July, 1899, was

pirated, the purser, a portuguese, being shot and seriously wound-

ed, These attacks are usually made upon Chinese vessels. The

modus operandi is almost always the same. At a given point a

boatful of armed men board the junk, or call upon the steamer

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