CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928 — Page 223

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to board them in port and wait until they are on the high

Seas before acting. But the nature of the orine is

exactly the same - the violent seizure of a vessel with

the object of robbery. To say that this is not piracy is

about the same as saying that murder is not murder because

it is done with poison and not with a hatohet.

H. h. Legation,

Peking.

10th January 1920.

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