CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 334

APPENDIX I.

GOVERNOR HONG LONG TO SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.

0.0. No. C.15383.

sir,

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HONG KONG.

30th June, 1926.

Enc: No.1.

I have the honour to invite your attention to ry

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secret despatch of the 20th January last, concerning the

capture of s.s. Tung Chow by Bias Bay pirates, and particular-

ly to the sixth paragraph, from which you will see that

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on the 9th January Mr. Fu Peng-sheung, then Commissioner of

Foreign Affairs at Canton, wrote that this outrare "should

be dealt with by the Nationalist Government themselves, who

would certainly be able to exterminate these pirates.

Moreover, they had already begun to move in the metter, end

there was no need for foreign assistance".

2.

Not only has no attempt whatever been made from

that day to this by the Canton Government to exterminate the

Bias Bay pirates, but, since the seizure of s-s. Tung Chow,

three more piracles have been committed by the Bias Bay

gang, I attach a report by Kr. T.H. King, Deputy Super-

intendent of Police, describing these piracies. Bias

Bay is a sort of "No Man's Land", in which the writ of the

Canton Government does not run, and which is dominated by

pirates and brigands from the large village of Fan Lo Kong

at the North East corner of the bay.

Not reproduced.

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