CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928 — Page 42

COPY.

6 enclosures.

No. 169.

(and 1 copy)

Mr. Brenan to Sir Miles Lampson.

Copies to:- F.O. No. 106.

Hongkong No. 457. 0. in 0.

Commodore, Hongkong.

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H.B.M. CONSULATE GENERAL,

CANTO N.

October 31st, 1928.

In view of the messages contained in your telegram

to me No. 146 of the 27 October and your telegram to the

Foreign Office No. 1209 of the 29th October, it is perhaps

as well that I should report more fully than I have done

hitherto the efforts which I made to induce the Canton

authorities to take action against the "Anking" pirates.

2. My despatch No. 158 of the 4th October described

my first interviews with the naval headquarters and the

Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in respect of this case.

On the 5th October I received a communication from the

Officer Administering the Government (copy enclosed) conveying

the information that the pirates were believed to be on

cortain islands at the entrance to Bias Bay and asking that

the Canton Government should send naval forces to assist the

local Chinese police in their capture. It was also suggested

that Canton should ask for British naval co-operation in the

expedition. I received this communication shortly before I

was due to attend a reception at the Portuguese Consulate-

General in honour of the Portuguese national day. AS I

expected to meet the higher Chinese officials at the reception,

I had a memorandum prepared in Chinese embodying the informa-

tion received from Hongkong and containing the request for

Co-operative action.

His Majesty's Minister,

3./

Peking.