CHINESE PIRACY
PARTICULARS OF ATTACK. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this' day at 11.25. a.m.) SHANGHAI, Sept. 30. Details of the Nanking piracy show forty • pirates were concealed among fourteen hundred deck passengers, and captured the ship. They were desperately resisted by tlie foreign officers and engineers, hut these were outnumbered and ruthlessly shot. Tlie fight occurred at seven in the evening of the 26tli, when the officers were dining. A hand to hand struggle took place on the deck. The pirates finally securing possession of the vessel, they seized the armoury and threw the bodies of the murdered officers overboard. They kept Second Officer Bennett on the bridge for fifty-four hours navigating the vessel, and carefully avoiding a notorious pirate stronghold, Bias Bay, which is now p ait rolled by foreign warships. The vessel entered Honghai Bay where the ship was systematically looted of SO,OOO dollars worth of cargo, which was carried off in the ship’s boat, the crew being compelled to assist. Seven Chinese were kidnapped for ransom.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1928, Page 5
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