CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 121

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opinion until they had received fis Excellency's

views.

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NÁ PRODAJ

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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