CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10] — Page 133

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Sab Eclosure to Enclosine of Scured Dropatzi of 24/8/06

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Translation.

Sir,

2nd. August, 1906..

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt on the

20th. July of your dispatch on the subject of the "Sainar" piracy

case, and 1 further bee to express my satisfaction at your consent,

in our personal interview at Ahampoa on the 24th. July, to assist

me in devising some satisfactory scheme for the protection of stean

vessels.

After the accident to the S.S. "Sainam", I immediately

telegraphed orders that stringent measures should be tamen to

search out and deal with the oriates. I directed Colonel Huang Pei-

sung with Commodores Lin and Chiu of the kiver Police to despatch

launches with troops to orcceed to the scene and operate against

the robbers both on the waterways and ashore, and to still further

ensure the apprehension of the chief offenders I requested the

Admiral to proceed personally to superintend the search, so that I

have certainly scared no efforts in dealing with the case. The

murderer, biang A Chiu, who shot ur. Nacionali, has been arrested, as)

have also Chang A Ping, Oh'en A Chiu, and Li A Chien, who were in-

plicated in the piracy. The important pirates having all been seized

) am now taking measures to secure the apprehension of the rest,

which should, I think, be effected without much difficulty.

This province, as you are wall aware, has always been a

hotbed of piracy, and since my appointment as Viceroy the reorganiza-)

tion of its policing arrangements has been my daily cocupation.

Notorious pirate chiefs, such as vu hsin, Lin Kua Ssu, Oh'en Na hang

Hai, Tai Mei usiang, and Hsu ta Mane Chin, have all been captured

one after another, and in addition to these, in three years altoge-

ther more than 10,080 pirates have been punished, exclusive of those

who, offering resistance, were killed on the spot. Formerly over one