CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935 — Page 141

Anti-piracy precautions:

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arrangements for searching deck!4/

passengers boarding Butterfield and Swire's steamers at Tsingtao,

British Consulate General

Tsingtao.

25th February 1935.

No. 5 (& 3 copies)

Copies to: Shanghai

Tientsin.

sir.

I have the honour to report that the manager of

Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's Tsingtao office called on the 20th

instant to inform me that his firm desired, as one of various

additional precautions against piracy, to arrange that all deck passengers and their baggage proceeding by the China Navigation

Company's coastal steamers should be searched before

embarcation at the several ports. Mr. Rodger had received

instructions from his Shanghai Office to endeavour to arrange

for this measure to be adopted here, in the case of the company's

passenger steamers calling at Tsingtao on voyages between

Shanghai and Tientsin and vice versa, and he asked my assistance

in approaching the Chinese authorities in the matter.

2.

It should be explained that the passenger steamers

calling at Tsingtao are moored, for the purpose of embarking and disembarking passengers and cargo, at the outer (seaward) end of a long wharf which juts out into the harbour at right angles

to the shore. The wharf is over a quarter of a mile long and

passengers proceed to and from the steamers by means of a covered passage which runs the whole length of the wharf. wharf is Chinese Government property and is controlled and

/ policed

The

The Honourable

Sir Alexander Cadogan, K.C.M.G., C.B..

eto.,

etc..

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Peking.