AFFAIRS IN CHINA
NANKING FORCES START OFFENSIVE. PIRATES’ AUCTION MARKET. MY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. SHANGHAI, Nov. 11. The Nationalist forces controlled by the Nanking Government have commenced a general offensive northwards and westwards of Tientsin on the Pulcow railway and Yangtszc river, undertaking operations on a large scale. Pirates operating in the Yangtszc gorges have introduce 1 a novelty in their business, according to travellers arriving in Shanghai, including passengers released by the pirates owing to their poverty. These describe a human auction mart where the victims from the pirates’ vessels are divided into three classes according to wealth, and auctioned to the highest bidder, who takes the risk as to the amount of ransom he may obtain from the victim purchased.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 November 1927, Page 5
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122AFFAIRS IN CHINA Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 November 1927, Page 5
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