CAPTURED BY PIRATES

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 20

CAPTURED BY PIRATES

Pirates in pantomimes and pirates ir l Ory£nOks are air vv*ry- exciting, bu the 70 children, lately captured bj real pirates on the China seas will fee BuS? nor for tt? rest of "their lives. Their fantastic adventure was made Sfflf* ref the killing of an! £ ?IZ ?",? ian saatds by the Plates but the children themselves came ttf nc harm, and the fact that the pirates de layed their return to school must make the adventure, terrifying/though it was at the time, now seem doubly wonder hJSJ%K^ d"^rican chU<*™r had been? picked %at Shanghai'by the British steamer, «T|ungchow, and were on their way back to school at Chefoc after their holidays. [There w,ere othei passengers on the stehmer^nd a dozer of these suddenly threw off their disguise of peaceful Chinese citizens and proceeded to capture the wireless apparatus, .take command of the ship lock up the children, the, crewi fehd the real passengers, 'and alter thtfSlship's CtJUtsfe, from north 'to eolith •*<*&- --♦ -For'thr^ days fcSAs ia the hands of. ttiese nirates who it seems in pantomime, got busy with their^paintpots and Changed the black funnel to rea and white, the.Tungchow's name to Toamaru, and then proceeded to collect what money and jeweUery...and' loot tney could find. Bias .Bay, haunt Of, pirates, they Slgnailed to a junk which drew close, and then sailed off with the first load of loot. But there was no time forl a second load, for the British Navy, the great policeman of the seas, had also got 'busy; News"had came that "ffcc lungchTwwal WovSe, COrda h search party of two battleships, destroyers, and the aircraft-carrier H.M.S. Hermes set out.1 ,\ j th^C^whfAnnTt^^P^ 0"1 the Hermes .which found the steamer not far north of Hong Kong, hundreds of miles out of her course. The pirates bolted at once in the ship's boats taking with them hostages;, but directly tney v ,got to Shore safely Without a bomb" exploding on them Hiey let the hostages go and took to their heels. The hostages were picked up by another boat and brought back to"the steamer, which, four days after setting out from Shanghai to go north to Chefoo, arrived hundreds o£ miles to the smith it Kon? TCnncr ?W%Snffi!B3U heard thechildren's cheers when they saw the British, aeroplane coming to their rescue; and ■we'would like to hear Xn^ SS srn£°JJ2J. small boy jealous. - ' ,

the south a.t Hong Kong. - - f We1, would like ,to,_h's<se" heard" the-1 children's cheers.when'they saw the) British aeroplane coming to their | rescue; ana we'would like to hear some of the stories 'woven out of this. adventure, which must make every, small boy jealous. -■ ,•

PICTURE PUZZLE. TnKe the first lettet of the seven articles shonu in the picture' above and write them down. Then see 19 you cart arrange tucm to Bpell tho name-of a' well-known bird, Tlv> answer will ..be given next *eeU. TANGLED TOWNS OF ENGLAND. He-shuffled, the letters of the following phrases spell the names of ill,we!L~knd|rn English townsior «ltl«s. - — v - - SECRET? BOW PERT SON . CLEAN WEST - O NO PATH MUST HAD RUM .-. LO HUMPTY 'A CHARADE. My first no life or feeling blesses; My second every sense possesses; And nothing more affronts my second Than when It like my first Is reckoned; Together they a being. Bhow, The greatest nuisance that we know. Da you" know me? My first Is black, or white, or brown, I think. -Tls sometimes grey, but never green or pink; In yon gay dance my second Is in place, Though ne'er In time,-It wantetb not In grace; My third of Grecian birth, in prose ne'er seen, Nor oft In English-poetry, 1 ween; :My grievous direful ..whole it oft -relates With wretched - mortals . and. their lovc3 and hates: ii , "ANSWERS FOUND BY . . ."

- "Little Gladness" (13); ''Griseidfi" (15); and "Purple Pansy" (12).

< LAST WEEK'S ANBWERS. Jumbled Mountains.—Blanc, Snbtfdcn, Egmont. Cook, Kunperra. EverestBeheaded Word.—Trout, out. tetter Rhyme.—Capable.