CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926 — Page 41

Dear Paskin,

Military Branch,

Admiralty, S.W.1.

5th March, 1926.

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With reference to your letter C.1003 of

27th February 1926, we agree generally with your proposed letters to Hong Kong.

I should like, however, the last sentence

on page 2 to be altered to read:-

"They have pointed out that even on the

High Seas there are limits to the protection that the Navy affords to trade or that traders could reasonably demand from the Navy"

I am afraid that the Admiralty cannot

commit itself so far as is suggested in paragraph 4.

Some Naval Officers of experience take the view that

a system of patrols could supply adequate protection against this form of attack, or rather could succeed

in stopping this form of attack. The difficulties

are mainly financial. I should suggest that

the end of the sentence be altered to read: -

Mr. J.J.Paskin, M.C.,

Colonial Office,

S.W.

In the conditions obtaining in the waters of the Canton Delta, where

the