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93.
Goverment House, Hongkong.
February 10th, 1928.
Bo,
With reference to your despatch So. 2 of 16th
January 1928, to Ris Majesty's Minister, Feking, desling
with the report of the Sunning Piracy Com ission (a copy
being supplied to me) I vanture to invite your attention to
a misapprehension which appears therein, and which has a
bearing on the interpretation of the despatch as a whole.
Throughout it is assumed that the Sunning
Commission issued two reports - * Majority and a Minority
epert. Only one report was in fuot issue QË
id it was
unanimous. The importance of this unanimity is obscured by
the assumption that opinions were divided.
The Minority Report was a documt issued
in January, 1925, by the unof Talal members
appointed in 1924
to consider certain proposed amendmenta
of the Piracy Regulations and was peculiar in tht ne repert
#t
The
i sued by the Jomit
une fficial members of the 15
as a chele.
song whom Mr.
1.3. Brown was prominent, took objection to a certain
limitation of the terms of reference, and finally dissocia
the
themselv from the rest of the on it
long their own lines – althoug:
ained - and made their own report.
considered
no witnes* were
le the paper
known as the Minority apert: it was signed by dr. N.3.
Brown, Xr. T.#. Chaw (
) and Lieuten ut comŞADGET
1.1. Luuran 300,
members of the Jan:
There was no report at all from the other
His Britannia majesty's Consul-General,
Canton.
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