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Red 24 SEP 06
B.M. Consulate-General,
Canton, 22nd. August, 1908.
sir.
On the 17th, instant I had the honour to repoort
by telegraph two piracies of British owned branches which
have occurred in my district since the date of the "Sainam"
tragedy (13th, July, last).
I have now the honour to enclose copy of Acting
Consul Pratt's report on the first of these which occurred at
Ten Chuk a olace near Pingnan and some fifty miles above
Wuchon. The launch "Wing Bet" (Wand, "Yune Fa") had on board a
guard of five soldiers who were all shot, and wounded by the
pirates and one of then fell into the river and was drowned.
The second case occurred near the landing stage
of Yang Kee some seventeen miles from Canton, under the follow
ing circumstances,
The launch "Kwai Pin" left Denoon on the 15th.
August with about one hundred passengers, As she was nearing
Yune Kee, two sempans approached her and piretes who had come
on board as passengers ordered the master of the launch to
stop. Resistance was offered and the master was shot through
the thigh and a ficeman in the chest. The fireman died in
Hosoital next day. The pirates in the sampens boarded the
launch and after collecting all valuables on board, ren her
aground on a sandbank and decamoed. She was rescued later by
a passing Government launch the "Lee Yuan".
I am now eneaged with Adnicel Li and the Commiss- ioner of Customs in forani stine sone Regulations to be observed
by
e doa: L. D. Carnegie, M.V.O.
H.B.M. Charge d'Affaires,
Peking.
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