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Note alteration of order on page 3.
Notes of a meeting at the Foreign Office
on Wednesday, January 18th, 1928.
PRESKI 1:-
Mr. G.A. Mounsey, 0.M.G., 0.B.E.
(Chairman)
Mr. C.B. Steel
Foreign Office.
Mr. W.. Toller
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Mr. W.D. Ellis, C.M.G.
Mr. 1.2. Boutaorn, C.M.O.
Captain G. Layton, D.8.0., R.N.
Commander P.H. Harrison, H.H.
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Carr, D.3.0., 0.B.X.
Colonial Office.
Colonial Secretary
of Hongkong.
Admiralty.
War Office.
Squadron Leader
X.H. Bottomley, A.F.C.
Air Ministry.
Mr. 0.H. Boyd
Board of Trade.
Mr. Mounsey opened the question of the issue of fresh
instructions to the Governor of Hongkong as to measures to
be taken for dealing with pirates. He explained the present
position, which gave the Governor authority to take limited
action after consulting the Commander-in-Chief and Him
Majesty's Minister at Peking. The situation had been modified
by the conference of Ministers in Peking on the question of
international co-operation; the genera conference had faded
away, but the question of co-operation was still being
discussed/
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