CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7] — Page 482

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Enclosure 3.

Banitary Department,

26th June, 1914.

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I have the honour to report that in accordance

with your instructions I proceeded to Canton on the 19th instant

to enquire into the recent interference by pirates with the

Conservancy Boats of this Colony. I took with me the Master of

one of these boats and the managing foreman of the City con-

tract.

I arrived on the following morning and went with

Lt.-Commander Dixon, Commanding H.M.S."Moorhen" to the British

Consulate where we discussed the position with Mr.Jamieson the

Consul-General.

It was finally arranged that I should see R.E.

Tutuh Lung personally and request him either to send the

Commander of one of the Chinese gunboats or the gunboat herself

to go with H.M.S."Moorhen" over the waters in which the attacks

had occurred. H.E. the Tutuh chose the latter course and it

was accordingly arranged that the two ships should meet at

Tiger Island the next morning.

H.M.S."Moorhen" with myself and the two Conser-

vancy men arrived at Tiger Island at 10 a.m. on the 21st inst.

and was shortly afterwards joined by the Chinese gunboat "Kong

Hon", having on board the Captain Superintendent of the Water

Police (T'eng Cheung), a Mr.Ta'ol Ch'un Hang.

Commander Dixon and I called on the "Kong Hon"

and discussed the situation at length with her Commander and

Mr.Ts'oi. We strongly urged upon them the desirability of making

the villages along the different waterways responsible for any

interference with traffic occurring near them. This however

the Chinese Officers declared to be impossible. They stated

that the outrages in question were committed off lonely padi-

or mulberry-flats by small bands of armed men having no fixed

The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary.