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TELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for the Colonies
to the Governor of ong Kong.
(Sent 2.30 p.m. 20th November, 1926).
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Your telegram 16th November piracy in view o
urgency instructions of His Majesty's Goverment were sent through Naval Commander in Chief, I am glad to learn from newspaper and other reports that the incident terminated so successfully please telegraph full
particulare as soon as available also whether any founda tion for report that outbreak also occurred on S.§. "Hongpeng".
His Majesty's Government are giving earnest consideration to the general question of the measures to to
be adopted to suppress the pirate gangs in Kwangtung and I hope shortly to be able to reply to your despatch
With reference to paragraph 7 your
secret 30 June.
despatch secret 23 July frontier outrages His Majesty's Government while sympathising with your attitude have decided that in view of the difficulty and delicacy of the situation generally they must insist that British troops should an no account be employed outside the frontier without specific instructions from His Majesty' Goverment
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