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CONFIDENTIAL.
PIRACY IN WATERS ADJACENT TO HONG KONG.
Notes of a meeting held at the
Colonial Office on the 13th January, 1926.
Present.
Sir G. Grindle, K.C..G., C.B.
Sir R.E.Stubbs, K.C.M.G.,
lir. F.T.A.Ashton-Gwatkin
Mr. G.S.Moss, O.D.E. Captain A.M.Peck, D.S.0. Mr. P.E.Marrack, 0.B.E. Major R.B.Pargitor
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Foreign Office.
Admiralty.
War Office.
Hr. . Leak.
Board of Trade.
Captain F.W.Bate
Mr. J. Paskin
Colonial Office.
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Mr. Marrack explained that while the Favy accepts the duty of protecting British ships on the high seas, he did not think that the British baxpayer could properly be called upon to pay for the provision of special naval forces to prevent piracy in the inland waters of another country.
Sir E Stubbs said that it was scarcely possible to draw the same distinction between the high seas and river waters in China as is drawn in Europe. The broad Chinese rivers are to a very great extent "no man's ground". He felt, therefore, that if naval forces are provided to patrol these waters it lay with the Imperial Government and not with the Government of a Colony to pay for them,
In his view, however, too much had been made of the necessity for and efficacy of patrol vessels. Most of the ships that had been pirated vere coastal vessels actually in international waters. We could only recollect two cases of piracy properly so
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