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opinion until they had received fis Excellency's
views.
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no 17-ngi unoth
Det wwu edo
T'ong Ta-ien, while recognizing the justice
and appropriateness of the scheme which merely
proposed to utilize the services of a Chinese
institution, foresaw list its enforcement sight in
practice be attended with serious complications.
There would almost inevitably be armed encounters
between the Water Police Service and the pirates;
livee might be luet, and the "hinese "overnment
would find themselves confronted with claims for
compensation.
These apprakmsions, I replied, appeared to me
to be groundless. The Chinese Government could, if
necessary, protect itself in its contracts of
engagement against euch claims and I quoted a
precedent at Canton which ought to reassure His
Rxcellency. In the early sixties the Canton
Government had organized a service of three gun-
boats officered exclusively by British subjects for
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