PIRACY IN CHINA.
DESTRUCTION OF STEAMER.
BRITISH WARSHIP INTERVENES
British Wireless. ItUGBY, Nov. It. Tho Admiralty announces that tho China Merchant Steam Navigation Company's steamer Hsin-chi was stranded on Tai Island iu a fog on tho night, of November 9. The steamer Tuiteroon stood by and reported that sho was about to rescue about 200 passengers who wero then on tho island.
A Chinese salt launch, with an armed guard on board, arrived next day. 'Hie captain promised that a Chinese gunboat would be sent to the scene, lie then left. The stranded vessel was attacked by pirates on November 11. She was looted and burnt, and only the hulk lemains. The British destroyer Serapis reached the wreck on the morning of the 13th. Iho pirates attempted to escapo in two junks and some small fishing craft. The junks with the loot and some of the piiates were captured.
The captain of the Serapis was ordered to hand over the junks and the prisoners to a Chinese gunboat if slio arrived by to-day. Failing that the Serapis was to tow the junks to Fuchow and hand them over to tho Chinese authorities there through the British Consul. No Biitish subjects or property arc involved.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 14
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