CHINESE PIRATES
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE SOUGHT
EFFORT TO EXTERMINATE
FASTNESS,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
( PEKING, December 28. Interest in the warfare in Central China is temporarily diverted to an attempt to . exterminate, a notorious pirate stronghold in Bias Bay following on the recent pirating of the British steamer Sunning. In ail the piracies lately carried out the vessels _have been taken to Bias Ray, which is within 100 miles of Hongkong, and looted, the prisoners being transferred to the robbers’ fastnesses in the adjacent mountains. The authorities in Canton have made overtures for a combined attack, including British naval forces from Hongkong and bombing planes, upon the pirates’ stronghold. The Canton Government had previously formed a military expedition to act in conjunction with the naval forces from Hongkong, but the Cantonese guerrillas attacked the military expedition, and prevented it from attacking the pirates. The new expedition is being awaited with deep interest, in view of the fact that it is the first time that foreign assistance _ has been sought effectively to deal with the pirate pest.
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Evening Star, Issue 19444, 30 December 1926, Page 5
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174CHINESE PIRATES Evening Star, Issue 19444, 30 December 1926, Page 5
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