AUDACIOUS PIRATES.
Operating At Very Dooas Of Shanghai. .
REGULAR BATTLE REPORTED
(United Service.) (Received 10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, November 20. At the very doors of Shanghai piracy was committed which the Chinese authorities are endeavouring to keep dark. It appears that a junk, laden with, bean oil from Dairen with a crew of eighteen, encountered a -pirate -craft manned by 60 men. A regular battle evened, resulting in the killing of fifteen of the junk's crew and an unknown number of pirates. The raiders, finding the cargo useless for their purposes, demanded and obtained ,£I6OO before liberating the
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 276, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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