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any farther communication

subject, please quote

No. F 861/94/10

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d to any person by name,

The Under-Secretary of State,''

Foreign Office,

London, 8.W.1.

13717

25 MAR 25

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.T. 1.

23rd March, 1925.

Sir,

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain

to transmit to you, herewith copies of letters

from Mesare. John Swire and Sons Limited and

Messrs. Matheson and Company Limited drawing

attention to the Minority Report, dated January,

1925, of the recent Hongkong Anti-Piracy Commission.

2.

I am to enquire whether the Secretary of State for the Colonies would see any objection

to the communication to these firms of copies

of the report of the Inter-Departmental Conference on piracy held at the Colonial Office

last year,

which has already been communicated

to the China Association, in order to show that

the question of piracy in waters adjacent to Hongkong, to which they allude, has been care-

fully considered in London.

3. A copy of a letter to the Admiralty dealing

with the further question of additional pro- tection against piracy on the Yangtze and the China coast generally is transmitted, herewith.

I am,

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

Sir "

Your obedient Servant,

Biathlon