PIRATES RAID SHIP
CHINESE KIDNAPPED Six well-to-do Chinese, kidnapped by pirates on December 15 in a sensational robbery of the Dutch passenger ship Van Heutz, still are held on a small island in Bias Bay, seamen reaching Hong Kong said. The location is within 40 miles of British Hong Kong, but it. is under Chinese jurisdiction and Chinese gendarmes dare not approach for fear of being attacked by the pirates, the seamen reported. The informants were crew members of the 2700-ton Chinese ship Kien Sing which went aground not „far away on February 28. Fishermen in the neighbourhood told them the Van Heutz piracy was still the talk of the coast. They said the pirates got the equivalent of £300,000 in money and The pirates complained that the profit was small because they had. to spend so much preparing for the job. The pirates on January 28 made overtures for ransom of the six prisoners, but no results have become known. ________
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22621, 26 April 1948, Page 5
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