CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928 — Page 227

No. 13 (21030/27)

Copies to

F.C.,

C-in-C,

Hongkong

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BRITISH LEGATION PIKING.

7th December 1927.

Sir,

I have received your despatch number 190 of November

14th, transmitting a translation of a letter from the

Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Canton claiming £572,452.

in respect of damage alleged to have been done to the villages

of Taipinghu and Fulai as a result of the naval punitive

expedition undertaken after the piracy of the .S."Kochow".

2. I approve your proposal to return no reply to this

claim.

J.F. Brenan Esquire, C.M.G.,

Acting British Consul-General,

CANTON.

I am, etc.,

(Signed) Miles Lampson.