CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 57

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Axmed Launches, it present these are tied down to convoying the They run on a regular time-table Hongkong-Longman river steamera.

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and convoy ships through the most dangerous areas. convoy work they patrol adjacent waterways,

a convoy no piratical attack le likely to be made but I am convinced that they can be far more efficiently employed with equally good protection to the river steamers and far better protection to the many small craft under the British flag if convoying is abolished

At present every and efficient patrolling instituted instead, pirate and locul inhabitat knows exactly when the convoy and ite guard launch will pasa and can make their plans to pirate a tow before or afterwards in perfect safety.

(0) Armed Guards on board ships. When pirao; became serious it was

obvious that some means of protection had to be provided and against internal ptracy in particular. The danger of any well-found ship being successfully attacked from the outside was, and in my opinion is, very small indeed, provided she was in the hand of efficient

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It therefore came to a question of convoys or armed guards. Convoy the regular river steamer traffic and also the sea-going ship traffic to Canton and Longuun means a very large number of fust

sonvoy craft continuousl. employed. Also as the speed of the convoy

is that of its slowest ship a great deal of inconvenience is caused

to the better found vessels. On the other hund to let all ships

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