The searching of passengers and baggage was carried out
at Singapore before departure as usual, but with such Large
number of people and the immense quantity of baggage they carry,
search in the time available cannot be the rough, though the
Singapore police have plain clothes detectives mixing with the
passengers, who it has been hoped would be able to discover any
bad characters.
Captain Cole tells us that he and the Officers did all
they could to ascertain if there were any likely pirates amo THE
the passengers and the compradore waz quite satisfied about them
all.
On the 21st of September we receivod & letter from the
Hongkong police, passing on inferation they had received that
a Bisa Bay gang of pirates had left there by junk for Evatow to
preased thenes to Amoy and Shanghai, their intention being to
pirate a ship leaving Shanghai. Of course all concerned wi th
the Shanghai Line were duly warned and the Naval Authorities
asked us to provide them with a list of our ships leaving the
North within the fellowing ten days, which we gave them, and
they replied in the negative to our request as to whether they
needed particulars of the Southern sailings. This information
They made no
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would appear to have been a blind, but the police were quite
satisfied with it and the Baval Authorities stationed a destroyer
off Bias Bay, which left there because of bad weather, only three
hours before the "Anking" arrived at Honghai.
prevision for the Singapore route. It is, of course, easy to be
wise after the event, and we ourselves might have given more
attention to the Bingapore steamers, but the Authorities were so
definite about their information that all concentrated on the
Shanghai route.
The pirates, in ordering the ship to their destination,
kept/
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