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civil and military will be free to perform the much

more difficult and importat dubles connected with the

pursuit and capture of tas pirates on shura. The con-

ditions under which the pirvoisk are carried out are

well-known: the pirates come frus the bunka of the

river » either as passengers or ka «ted bands, and they

retum to the banke at certain pre-arranged positions

for da purpose of landing their boaty and making their

way to their houses as circumstancon permit. The haunte

of the pirates are a matter of common knowledge through-

out Funding uni Fungsi, and it is for the local civil

and military officials to rout them out and to wake it

impossible for lurge bands of men tu carry out the

elaborate preparations on land which precede und follow

all suconesful robberies of foreign shipping.

dition to the system of water pulico which I have big-

gnated above, there is therefore the question of re-

sponsibility of the terrilar ial officials; and as re-

garis this I am instructed by His Majesty's Government

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