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Enclosure 3.

List of Cases of Robbery and Piracy reported in the Local

Native Press during November, 1912.

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Troops sent to Taileung.

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(Kuo Min Pao, November 1.)

Launch proceeding from Canton to Shuntak fired on at Tai Ping

Tai, and two passengers killed.

(Ch'i Shih Erh Hang Shang Pao, November 2.)

Ch'en Ch'un (near Taileung) Chamber of Commerce send re-

-presentatives to Canton to complain of disturbed condition of district. Tutu orders troops and gunboats to be despatched.

(Chung Kuo Pao, November 4).

Troops sent to Heungshan.

(Min Sheng Pao, November 4.)

Robbers levy tolls of $2.00 per mou in Tung Hai and Shih Liu Sha districts in neighbourhood of Heungshan, for allowing

farmers to gather in harvest.

(Kuo Min Pao, November 5.)

Launch and towboat robbed near Taileung by pirates who had

taken passages; three passengers carried off.

(Ch'i Shih Erh Hang Shang Pao, November 9.)

Young Ak Heung (Shuntak district) attacked and plundered and troops driven off.

(Chung Kuo Pao, November 9.)

Inhabitants of T'an Chou, Heunganan district, terrorized by robbers and ask that troops be despatched.

(Kuo Min Pao, November 16).

Launch pirated between Koming and Canton.

(Min Sheng Pao, November 19.)

River Traffic completely held up by pirates at Kumchuk.

(Chung Kuo Pao, November 21.)

Determined effort made by Government to suppress disorders in Shuntak district.

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(Yang Ch'eng Pao, November 27.)

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