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jesty's Government to the Chinese authorities.
His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton was,
however, informed by the Commissioner for
Foreign Affairs at that city in January 1926
that there was no need for foreign aesistance
in the suppression of piracy, and that no inter-
ference would be tolerated.
On the 23rd
December of the same year, during the course of
which acts of piracy had, as has been shown above,
continuèd without abatement or of ective re-
pression, His Majesty's Consul General at Canton,
acting on the instructions of His Lajesty's
Government, again represented to the Canton
Government the situation of foreign shipping in
the south China seas owing to the increasing
and unchecked activity of pirates; he invited
Canton Government to co-operate with
the British naval and military authorities
in taking effective measuree to put an end to
their activities, and gave a clear warning that
in the event of the Chinese authorities refusing
all
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