6. The raison @étre for any action taken against the bandits should have been the seizure of their persons for trial and the recovery of plundered property. It is difficult to reconcile either with reason or with the dictates to humanity an action which, in order to bring to justice some seven sus-
As regard my duties ulster the ocean and attacking merchant of Foreign Affairs, I have already mines ships of any and every nation with-requested to be relieved of them. out discrimination, inthe spirit and Therefore, if the press reports] intention of universal hostility. It pected criminals, did not hesitate to imperil the safety of 258 other per-Sons and actually to cause the death of at least 24 of them, and which, in order to recover plundered pro-fave correct, I earnestly request that the official announcement be not! made.
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