Enclosure No.1 in Mr. Brenan's No.5 of January 19th, 1928.
PIRACY OF S.S. "SAN NAM HOI".
Note Pak Kai (Lat 22 3b'N Long 113 07'E) is the port
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of Kongmoon.
H.M.S. "TARANTULA"
18th January, 1928.
No.152/37/1.
Sir,
At about 1346 17th January, 1928, when in Hill Passage
bound for Canton, "FAULKNOR'S" signals 1150 and 1300, re-
porting a piracy in S.S. "SAN NAM HOI" in which several
British subjects had been killed and wounded, were received
in "TARANTULA" and course at once altered for Pak Kai.
"TARANTULA" arrived Pak Kai at 2000 when the attached report
by the Commanding Officer, H.M.S. "FAULKNOR" was handed to
me.
2. This morning (18th January) I proceeded accompanied
by Lieutenant Commander F. A. Figou of H.M.S. "FAULKNOR" to
interview the Military Commandant, the police and represen-
tatives of the Merchant Volunteers. I also interviewed the
Commissioner of Customs. Little additional information to
that contained in "FAULKNOR'S" report was obtained, except
that all three authorities appeared very loth to connect the
attack on the "SAN NAM HOI" with the Seamen's Union. It
was only when they were informed that certain of the so-
called pirates had been recognised as discharged crew by
Officers and men in the "SAN NAM HOI" that they asked that
someone should be sent to identify them (Senior Naval Offi-
cer, West River's signal to Commodore, Hongkong 1230/18).
To/
The Commodore,
Hongkong.
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