ATTACKED BY PIRATES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 6 May 1911, Page 2

ATTACKED BY PIRATES.

;;■;•;." ..-AN,ExcrriNa ; w ! R,ECK^?;?; f;;' i r•■_ . HONGKONG. May 2." ? " Sensational incidents marked the wreck of the sMail Co.^steamer Asia; at Fmger ; Ruck -Island, 200 miles sotith of Shanghai.---- -;■;■ •'■ - •■ -'_■ Soon •'after''the vessel - struck a number of-Chinese pirates, came- along, and ■swarmed up the sides of the ship, hoping to loot 'the- cargo;. < s;:".'. >;; ■ ■■, i. .Armed AviliK rCTolverSj^ rifles, arid , snot-guns, the.-officers and-.-crew^cour-:'a'geously defended, •■the_ship, the" invader,s; b.ein^ repeatedly driven oack* .. At the first. attack;' I;He;;>'pfcates cap,tured brie of the. engineers, M'r'A' 7 E ,Cozeri,' ; ■ arid' ;;Wfiter-tehdermaaa R E whom had to be ran,|omea 'by iM 'paymieri:* of ;£6O. ■ ; .'.Hardly.-.had?-'the,»release of Mr -Arunael; 'been/.secured,u>b.ow€vei!v when-he disappeared;, ; no .-.one knows,:where> but W is. ieared thati be ha^ s |allen^^nto ilie;.' : ■■hands ot-'^Ae.: brigand's... aga^n. ' ■V-,^ 8}'1?-^^ 6®?* t^-wite pf 'a Call-' Lornian .merchant; was wounded "while :bß^ .W^ d ashof-e |ri Kfeboat. '■-•" - lh^' ofßcters and t}rew"\stbpd by ■■vessel until Mhefoundereay-iEiria up-'to ;thatijtfm&yb!6f firedvsoo rounds i& re^^ spelling the attacks^of?!the pirates. ■?»)-i ABer <i: ship Us&nk tiie ; started divingnn order to rescue whafc".-; ever they could. ,>.■>,.->:>■• .■.--;. .\< .','<'.