CO129-547-3 China Piracy- anti piracy guards 25-1-1934 - 3-12-1934 — Page 67

Telegrams- “SHIPMINDER, PARL, LONDON." Telephone-WHITEHALL 5140 Ext.

Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to:-

e Assistant Secretary,,

Mercantile Marine Department

(address as opposite)

and the following number quoted :—

M.5974/34.

OF

If

Sir,

MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,

BOARD OF TRADE,

GREAT GEORGE STREET,

767

WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.

454

25th April, 1934.

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With reference to your letter of the 14th March

(33755/34) forwarding copies of correspondence with the

Governor of Hong Kong concerning the protection from

piracy of ships trading in Chinese waters, I am directed

by the Board of Trade to refer to their letter to the

Admiralty of the 17th April (M.3974/34) and to the letter

addressed by the Admiralty to this Department on the

18th April (M.1188/34) (copies of which have been

forwarded to your Department).

It will have been observed from these letters that

the Board are of the opinion (a) that the issue in Hong

Kong of the Safety Certificate under the International

Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea cannot properly

be made conditional upon the fitting of grilles or the

provision of armed guards, (b) that to make the issue in

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.

/Hong