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DRAFT TELEGRAM.
OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG
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As you are aware, as a
result of the Anking piracy, it has
been agreed as temporary measure, to
supply guards on ships from Military
forces, but War Office consider that
this cannot be continued indefinitely
and that shipowners and ships officers
should themselves take adequate
measures for internal defence including
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utilization of the Indian guards
organized at Hong Kong for the purpose.
I shall be glad if you will bring such
pressure as is possible to bear upon
the firms concerned, to adopt such
precautionary measures. It should be
remembered that the Piracy Regulations
were recently abolished in order to
meet the wish of the shipowners to be
allowed a free hand to provide for
their own defence: and there is a
certain inconsistency in their now
asking for military protection.
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