Kajesty's Government to the Chinese authorities.
His Lajesty'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 assistanc0 @
in the suppression of pirasy, and that no inter-
ference would be tolerated. On the 23. d
December of the same year, during the course of
which sets of piracy had, as has been shown above,
continued without abatement or effective re-
pression. His Majesty's Consul General at Canton,
seting on the instructions of His majesty'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
the Canton ✪ verment to co-operate
ith
the British naval and military authorities
in taking effective measures 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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