Rumours were current in Shanghai on Thursday to the effect that the str.
Kiawo, which runs between Chungking and Ichang, had been pirated by bandits on the Upper Yangtze, and that her officers had been attacked.
The report was stated to have come via Hankow, but it was impossible to obtain confirmation, blem, all apparently to no ava deed, we cannot see how regulations and vague assurances are able to assist in any way."
The "South China Morning Post" made the following comme Know it is a dificult problem: we have anid so in many exhaust comments. Every anti-piracy sure has been defeated: there ure none left to try. Accordingly, itis time to demand further We wade through a ma patrol, whatever the cost. that, or ships' officers must plainly instructed that their duty is to avoid all risk of bloodshed. We cannot have it both ways. resistance is expected, it must have 'a reasonable chance of success."
Canton's Feeble Effort The Canton Government have promised time after time that pirates wiij be ruthlessly suppress ed. An expedition was sent to Bias Bay to wipe out all the sex rovers and to build a raval station there. official information has been out us to the number of pirates caught or executed The Cotton papers report that a Chi sunbont will be permanently static ed in Bias Bay on the look-out for the sea pests.
The naval expedition was a feeble tone, und the intention was rot 30 much to clean up the pirates a8 to broadcast to the world that the Canton Government had done something towards the suppression of ey. One of the gunboats sent to Bins Bay was a small river steamer which was confiscated because she carried illicit goods. The Canton Government have only one old-fashioned destroyer, and assistance from Canton in wiping out pirates will be ineffective for some time to come
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