CHINESE PIRATES
CRIMES NEAR SHANGHAI TWO VESSELS SEIZED AMERICAN TENDER YIELDS £2500 ARMED JUNKS ATTACK STEAMER By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received Juno 3, 5.5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, June 2 Chinese pirates arc active on the coast near Shanghai. On Wednesday they seized a steam tender belonging to the Dollar Line at the mouth of the Yangtse River, the vessel yielding booty worth £2500. Two armed junks, each carrying 100 men, ranged alongside a small Portuguese cargo steamer when she was entering Hangchow Bay yesterday. The Chinese boarded her and threw handgrenades, killing tho second engineer and smashing the mainmast. The pirates abandoned their prize three hours later, taking the purser and four Chinese sailors as hostages, and looting the ship of all valuables.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23055, 4 June 1938, Page 13
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