CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928 — Page 195

No.89.

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Copy to Peking No.37.

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VED

2 9MAY 1928

COL.OFFICE

Government House,

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Hong Kong. 24th April, 1928.

sir.

I have the honour to forward for your information copies of Police reports regarding the seizure on 14th April, 1928, of the S.S. "Hein Wah" by pirates who directed the ship to Sen Chau Inlet which is connected by a narrow neck of land with the notorious Fan To Kong in Bias

Bay.

The "Hsin Wah" belongs to the China Merchants

Steam Navigation Co., flies the Chinese flag, and was at the time of the piracy on the way fran Shanghai to Hong Kong. You will observe that a Chinese gunboat which appeared on the scene sent ashore a party which failed to

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make any arrest or recover any of the cargo.

3.

I handed a copy of the earlier Police report

to Marshal Li Chai-sum when he passed through this Colony on 17th April. At the same time I also handed him a copy of a report on conditions in Hoifung, which I received from Bishop Valtorta, and of which I enclose a copy.

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I urged upon Marshal Li the importance of dealing at once with these pirates by action on shore, and I shall be glad if you too will be good enough to represent to him the necessity for eradicating pirates, brigands and

His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,

communists

CANTO N.