MURDER AND PIRACY
CEIME IX CHINA SEAS
GERMANS ARRESTED
SHANGHAI, July: 1,
A remarkable story of murder and piracy on tho high seas comes from Daircn. A few days ago the Chineseowned steamer Shen An, left Tientsin for Shanghai commanded by a Russian, Captain Yiklunan, who was accompanied by his wife. Five men, who |said they were of German nationality, were given passages after stowing away. , About 200 miles from Shanghai the stowaways brutally murdered Captain Vikhman and his wife, also the Russian mate, and tlirew the bodies overboard. They also murdered seven of the Chinese crew, who offered resistance. • The murderers then took control of the vessel, in which they planned to cross the Pacific and gaiu some American port. Needing additional provisions, they put into Hoshigaura, near Dairen, but bad navigation put the ship ashore. The murderers absconded, but later the Japanese police arrested Captain Taudjn and two German compatriots named SchuLer and Bceton. Twoothcrs, Gaudi, a Swiss, and Muller, a German, escaped, but their capture is certain. They intended, after provisioning the ship at Daircn, crossing the Pacific and selling the ship and the cargo .Cor 110,000 dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 2, 3 July 1933, Page 9
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191MURDER AND PIRACY Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 2, 3 July 1933, Page 9
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