CHINESE PIRATE
LOOT STEAMER TAI LEE
RINGLEADER SHIP'S BOATSWAIN.
(OMITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIQBI.)
(STDNEY SUN CABLE.)
■ HONG KONG, 22nd January. Pirates embarked on the Tai Lee at Hong Kong as pasengers, 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 he had shot the captain, while in the lavatory, where he was discovered after the" pirates left the ship. He was then alive. He was taken to hospital ashore and died. The boatswain departed with the pirates, who numbered sixty. They secured 20,----000 dollars worth of loot.
The Chinese river steamer Tai Lee voyaging from Hong Kong to Kon<rraoon, with about three, hundred passengers, was boarded by pirates at midnight, on Sunday. Captain Willox and one of the Indian guard were mortally wounded, and two other Indian guards seriously wounded. ,
.Ihe Tai Lee was looted and considerable booty carried off. Chinese passengers, variously reported at from 15 to 80, weve carried off and are held for ransom.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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176CHINESE PIRATE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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