FORCES CO-OPERATE
INTENSIVE PIRATE HUNT
SEA, LAND, AND AIR
(Secerned June 21,.1 p.m.)'
. . ; SHAIS:GHA3; This Bay. .It is reported from Wei-hai-wer that two captives of the Bhuntieii piracy gang have been released; namely, Messrs. . Graeme Nicholl, insurance manager, and,McDonald Watson, third engineer. Details are lacMng: An aeroplane reported having Been three foreigners in a small sampan waving a white flag, but haying no floats^ the aeroplane was compelled to return to the base. .... .' ■
The most intensive pirate' hunt ii the history of China is now progressing, sea, land,i and. air forces co-operating.' General Han Fuchn's Iroops lave been dispatched for the pnrpose of forming a cordon, _hoping to cut off the pirates' retreat inland, though having gained the mountains thirty miles from the coast, : it is believed that the task of dislodging : them will prove most difficult. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1934, Page 11
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137FORCES CO-OPERATE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1934, Page 11
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