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The above suggestions deal only with the general aspect of preventive measures. It is impossible within the limited opportunities of survey afforded to the writer over so great a ground to lay down opinions regarding the needs for each or any one port. For instance, the need at Amoy or Swatow for a harbour launch capable of keeping a general control appears to be a local matter and not to come under the larger heading of prevention as a whole. One thing, however, should be said in this connexion. It is doubtful if such harbour launches should be armed. The presence of arms is apt to invite attack for their possession and it is well to remember that men should be disciplined and instructed on their use and just when and where they should be used if the Service is not to be involved in some unpleasant incident.
F. HAYLEY BELL,
Commissioner, detached.
SIR,
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ENCLOSURE No. 2.
Copy of despatch from the Inspector General to Mr. F. H. BELL, dated Shanghai, 15th April 1930.
I HAVE to state that I have informed His Excellency the Minister of Finance, and the Director General of the Kuan-wu Shu, of the successful nature of your recent investigations in connexion with smuggling along the coast from Swatow to Foochow, and they have both expressed their satisfaction and have, furthermore, desired me to arrange for further patrol work on the same lines by revenue steamers.
It affords me pleasure to forward to you, appended hereto, a copy of a despatch from from the Shu dealing specifically with the question, and eulogising the services rendered by yourself and Mr. DING MAIU ANG, 2nd Assistant, B, in connexion with the recent raid on Wusu Island. I endorse the views thus expressed, and desire to thank you for the satisfactory conclusion of a difficult enterprise, which seems to have been conducted with unusual tact and resolution.
I avail myself of this opportunity, moreover, to add an expression of appreciation of the general services which you have rendered while detached on special duty in connexion with preventive work. The various reports and recommendations which you submitted from time to time have been studied with interest, and the knowledge gained will be of value in connexion with future operations.
I am, etc.,
F. W. MAZE,
Inspector General.
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