CHINESE PIRATES
BOARD RIVER STEAMER
MORTALLY WOUND CAPTAIN.
(USITED PRESS ABSOCIATIOH.-_eoPTMOBT.) (REOTBR'B TILKEAV.) (Received 23rd January, 11 a.m.) PEKIN, 22nd January. The Chinese river steamer Tai Lee, foyaging f rom ; Hong Kong to Kongmoon, with about three hundred passengers, was boarded by pirates at midnight on Sunday. Captain Wfllox and one of the Indian guard _ were mortally wounded, and two other Indian guards seriously wounded. The Tai,Lee was looted and considerable booty carried off. Chinese passengers, variously reported at from 15 to 80, were carried off and are held for ransom.
The report of the piracy was communicated to H.M.S. Robin, which hastened to the scene from Pak Kai on the West River. The pirates had disappeared, but^ the Robin found one of the Tai Lee's empty lifeboats, wherein the pirates had made off to the shore arid escaped.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 7
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139CHINESE PIRATES Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 7
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