BANDITS ON YANGTSE
RAID ON BRITISH BOAT
ORDEAL FOR OFFICIALS
LONDON, 17th January
Posing as Revenue officers searching for opium, a boatload of bandits boarded tho British river-boat Tuckwo, bearing six British Embassy members, including the Legation secretary, between Nanking arid Chinkiaug yesterday. They disclosed their identity after reaching the deck. Tho bandits wounded several Chinese who resisted, threw one overboard alive, and seized a small quantity of opium. Government troops on the shore, apparently suspecting piracy, fired recklessly on the Tuckwo, hundreds of bullets spattering the vessel's sides. The fire was intensified upon the pirates' departure in a launch carrying the stolen opium. The steamer reached Shanghai safely.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19300118.2.56.2
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 9
Word Count
109BANDITS ON YANGTSE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in