CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928 — Page 88

contained therein, the more danger is there of pirates

er their accomplices being within the fortified mone

before the attack begins.

travel zatolian

The pirate

they may be 10 Liu with mo

of the orew or cabin stewards.

interferes with the coming and going of the crew and

waras on the antou bunlunaa,

the beate 1: ause of mergeBoy

It mo

noro laukod

entes and therefore nero guarda to attend to

The

gates are out of sight of the officer on the bridge, and

the constant necessity of opening and shutting the

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wee on the part of

#ave trouble,

monontra expons

WATAN who 104va

The fortified brige, with one

ays of the offloor.

would

abviate these disadv stages. If, in addition to the

fortified bridge, the shipping companies are willing to

inqur

expense of zubai

lary grilles and ad

tional guards, well and good, but I do not think they

and the bridge is the essential thing.

13.

letter of

I referred to Mr. Kobertson and K. Nrown the

questions which the vemsander in Chief suggested, in his

no ath funo. night De sakod of the Chi

Navigation company. They ansured that then wanno

truth in the insinustion that they did not encourage

their officers to resist piracy because resistance entails

e ship

therefore

Thayat.xted

What they had given ne special orders to masters und

officers to resist piracy because they presumed that the latter took it for granted that that a part of their

dutins. The officers of the "an ing" had been presanted

by the Company with inscribed chronometers in recognition

of their gall at conduct and they had been fully