PIRATES' CAPTIVES
DEMAND FOR RANSOM STATEMENT IN COMMONS (Received April 7, 5.45 t».m.) British Wireless RUGBY. April 6 In a statement to the House of Commons about the British officers of the mercantile marine captured recently by pirates in Chinese waters, the Foreign Under-Secretary, Captain R. A. Eden, said one of them, Mr. F. L. Pears, had arrived at Newchwang on April 3 with a letter from tho chief of the brigands demanding as ransom a considerable sum of money and a largo quantity of arms and ammunition. Captain Eden said it was stated that the captives had not been bound or ill-treated, and had been kept in a junk in the Parishan area since their capture. The local authorities, who had been vigorously prosecuting a search for the officers, had been requested to take no independent action without first consulting the British VicoConsul in Newchwang, who was in constant touch with all the developments and would tako all possiblo measures to secure the release of the captives.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 11
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