CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 507

LANTINY CHA JER OF CO BERCE,

C.

1, 2 AND 3, OXFORD COURT 18958

AND 97, CAIRKA STREET, REC

LONDON, E.C. Reef 25MAY

15th May, 1914.

500

sir:-

I am instructed to inform you that this Chamber

has received from the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce a

cablegram asking it to "very strongly urge' upon His

Majesty's Government the necessity for pressing the

Chinose Government to promptly and thoroughly deal with

pirater in fouthern waters in the interests of human

life and of the property of traderu affected by their

depredations.

The Hong Kong Chamber also express the view that

it is absolutely essential that the naval patrol

should be increased in Southern waters and more

particularly in the Kwantung Delta, and they add that

villages which are the headquarters of the pirates

are quite well known and that steps ought to be taken

to deal with them in an exemplary manner.

I may add that the Far Eastern Section of the

☐ Right Honourable

Sir E. Grey, Bart., K.G.,

&c.,

&c.

Chamber