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GENERAL No. 10948.

C.R. No. 9218.

THE INSPECTORATE GENERAL OF CUSTOMS.

SHANGHAI OFFICE

421 Hart Road,

Shanghai.

sir,

3rd October, 1935.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your despatch No. 1034 of the 31st August, 1935:

Suggesting the issue of certain instructions to

the vessels and stations of the Chinese Maritime

Customs in order to give practical effect to the

scheme for establishing intercommunication with

the ships of the Royal Kavy as a step towards the

solution of the piracy problem :

and, in reply, to thank you for your communication and

to inform you that the necessary instructions are being

issued.

I trust that mutual co-operation on the part

of our respective services will become an important

factor leading to the gradual extinction of piracy

along the China Coast.

I have the honour to be,

81r,

Your obedient servant,

(sd.)...................

INSPECTOR GENERAL OF CUSTOVS.

Sir Frederic G. Dreyer, K.G.B., C.B.E., R.N.,

British Naval Commander-in-Chief,

China Station.