Concerning the recent piracy on the str, Solviken, the Hongkong Government instructed the British Consul-General in Canton to notify the Chinese authority that a' naval raid would be conducted to sweep the pirates' headquarters in Bias Bay. This was dono last month, and the local government hay issued tthe official correspondence relating to this matter. In his letter to LBM, Consul-General in Canton, Sir Cecil Clementi, the Governor, wrote that, while it was clear that the pirates actually boarded the Golviken at Hongkong, it was equally clear that the coup was engineer ed by the Bins Bay gang, since it was to that place the pirated ship Was taken, and it was there that the plunder was landed. He requested the Consul to inquire from the Canton Government if it was prepared to necept the friendly operation of the Hongkong Government in combined operations which would once and for all root out this gang, whose depredations were even more damaging to Chinese than to foreign interests. Should this offer be refused, and should the Canton Government itself still fail to. take the necessary punitive and preeautionary measures, the Governor requested that warning of independent British punitive action would without fail be taken if the Bias Bay gang committed further outrages, Mr, Wu Chao-chu, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, replied that there was sufficient proof that the pirates had an organization in Hongkong, and he asked the Consul to move the Hongkong Governor at once to abolish pirate dens in Hongkong as A radical way to settle the matter. With regurd to the extermination of, the Bias Bay pirates, the Ministry already had decided upon @ plan which it would carry out, so that the matter need not cause anxiety.
What the plan of the Foreign Minister was, is not known, but since no intimation of ce-operation was set out in his reply, the Bias Bay raid was carried out fast month
forces, the Hongkong police and naval Acconotne to the vernacular press, the Japanese landing force, which has been for the past fow months stationed in Shanghai, will soon be transferred to Hankow to protect Japanese lives and properties there.
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