CO129-506-8 Prevention of piracy- use of armed patrol launches in Canton Delta 12-1-1927 - 28-3-1927 — Page 5

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I agree.

(Intd.)W.D.E.

at once.

7/3.

to Sir E. Stubbs

arguments.

Tel. as in d.h. and recirculate as to

this and for consideration of 62-66 which

show the present position with regard to Governor's correspondence with Sir F. Lampson on the general question.

3 47 4.

(Signed) P.A.Clutterbuck.

5/3.

To Gov. Tel. 7th March 27.

Merch

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To Admy. (w/copy) 15/3/27. Conf.L.F.

5. Admy

28/11/27

( Coby ftel 11 - 23/11/41) CC-M.C

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from Garb of B. K

This has been delayed, owing in the

first place to it being registered on 30016

and subsequently transferred to this file, and

secondly to a search for previous papers, some

of which have not yet been found. The missing

papers are 52373/24, 1003/26 and 56758/25,

(which appears to have been missing for some

while, see Mr. Clutterbuck's minute above). The

minute, however, appears to contain sufficient

indication of the contents of these papers for

present purposes.

The present position seems to be that

the Admiralty are trying to force Hong Kong to

pay practically the full cost of the armed

launches operating in the Canton area. At

present