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Chinese Government.
This Department have also conveyed to the Admiralty a further suggestion from the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce that the officers commanding His Majesty's gunboats in the West River should be instructed to report periodically on the state of security of traffic on the waterways in the neighbourhood of Canton, and from time to time to suggest such improvements as may appear to them desirable in the plans devised for keeping piracy in check.
I am to suggest that the steps which are being taken by this Department in this matter may be communicated to Sir M. Nathan, and that His Excellency should at the same time be informed that his proposal for entrusting methods for the prevention of piracy to the Imperial Maritime Customs will be referred to His Majesty's Representative at Peking.
The original enclosures in your letter are returned herewith.
I am,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
The Empire &
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Chinese Government.
This Department have also conveyed to the Ad-
miralty a further suggestion from the Hongkong Cham-
ber of Commerce that the officers commanding His
Majesty's gunboats in the West River should be in-
structed to report periodically on the state of se-
curity of traffic on the waterways in the neighbour-
hood of Canton, and from time to time to suggest such
improvements as may appear to them desirable in the
plans devised for keeping piracy in check.
I am to suggest that the steps which are being
taken by this Department in this matter may be com-
municated to Sir M. Nathan, and that His Excellency
should at the same time be informed that his pro-
posal for entrusting methods for the prevention of
piracy to the Imperial Maritime Customs will be re-
ferred to His Majesty's Representative at Peking.
The original enclosures in your letter are re-
turned herewith.
I am,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
The Empire &
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