LOOTING OF CHINESE STEAMER
« PIRATES EMBARK AS PASSENGERS Hong-Kong, January 22. The pirates embarked on the Tai Lee at Hong-Kong as passengers) the police in their search for arms failing to discover them. It is believed that the Chinese boatswain of the Tai Lee was their leader, a witness stating that ho had shot tho captain, while in the lavatory, where he was discovered after the pirates left the ship. He was then alive. Tie was taken to hospital ashore and died. The boatswain departed with the pirates, who numbered sixty. They secured 20 000 dollars’ worth of loot.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 103, 26 January 1924, Page 6
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101LOOTING OF CHINESE STEAMER Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 103, 26 January 1924, Page 6
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