It is time that a new Governor-General came to administer the Two Kuang. Piracy is growing more rampant with every month that goes by, and the pirates not bold with impunity but they are coming an organisation stronger Government. The notorious chief, Foo Chun-hoi, has " gang of some two thousand men, and they possess fifteen steam-launches and a fleet of snake boats, with stores of intinition and provision for yes, They have their fastnesses on hills at the back of the Bogue Forts, to which they enn retreat when pressed, but as a rule they have no occasion, for the junks and bouts, finding the matdarius powerless or unwilling to protect. them, are gradually ceasing resistance and make terms with the pirate chief, who is quite willing to accept blackmail and in return to give them flags which will ensure them against attack, He even goes 80 far as to promise protection against other robbers. Perhaps the next move will be for him to guarantee then from official squeezes—fur x consideration, The rule of the pirates would no doubt, if legalized, be no whit more oppressive than that of the mandan Hongkong, 13th January.
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