CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7] — Page 227

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Thanks for your note of 12th.

I can agree that you have right of search on

board of boats in Mirs Bay as they lie off Chinese territory

but I cannot agree that you have the right to land patrols on

the beach between high and low water mark. If it is a case of

searching junks lying on the beach awaiting high tide I do not

feel inclined to say anything, but I understood that you were

patrolling on that portion of exposed beach. This portion

we have to come to close quarters about it

China's or at any rate neutral territory.

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I must maintain is

If the case has to come up officially I

must seek to secure the recognition of China's right to search

any boats anchored off her foreshore; we do not board, and often

at great inconvenience to ourselves and probable loss of

revenue, because we do not wish to raise questions of violating

the frontier, etc.

I expect you find a good deal of petty

smuggling by market women and such like in small quantities.

Perhaps we might devise a system of shop registration for sale

over the Frentier and payment by the shopman periodically. So

soon as we can get definite frontier crossings the work of both

sides will be simplified.

Yeurs etc.,

(sd.) A. H. Harris.