CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928 — Page 5

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14. F.0.

Coby Lenclos

27/3/25

Legi 50696/28 (Pirating of 5.5. "Tena")

14.

The Nanking Ears. has raised

m'connection with the

various legal points

"I reve" case They

but end:

a

that the seizure of

The Icene was

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piracy in international law.

b Char che culmayne

4 had

L.4

To stop the "Freve" &

avers

no right

the picares

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in Bia's Bay

because thar

is Chinese

Cemilanal waters.

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more

violence

Chan

nccessary.

The F.O. reply is:-

a

The cizme

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was

hiracy

(The authorities com

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be divided on

The

subject)

by alcho' Bias Bay is within

Chinese tervital waters, siver the

Chinese

There

do

working

to

arrest pirates

other cometures must act.

e

was excessive

The evidence

face

wa)

he

the whether the face, used

is

question of fact &

suggests that no undul

used.

eply

is however, rather cautions

a it would appear that the Chinese

case is quite arquable in law.

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28.3.28

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