AUDACIOUS PIRATES
HONGKONG SHIP SEIZED TWO OFFICERS CAPTURED POLICE FIRE PROVES FUTILE PRISONERS USED AS SHIELDS By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received May 28, 5.5 p.m.) HONGKONG, May 27 An audacious act of piracy almost within British waters was perpetrated last night.
Fourteen armed pirates overpowered the officers of the steamer Prominent. They shot the master, Captain Jensen, in ono leg, threw the second officer off the bridge to the deck below and then steered the ship to Bias Bay. After looting the vessel the pirates escaped in the lifeboats to Ping Shan Island with their booty. A police launch pursued the pirates for some distance but the first and second officers, who had been taken prisoners, were used as shields against the police fire. The Prominent is a rice carrier trading between Hongkong and Saigon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21503, 29 May 1933, Page 9
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