Daring Piracy in the Chinese Seas.—We have again to report a daring and successful attack by pirates on the coast upon a European vessel. The British schooner Japonica, while drooping Oown from Namquan harbour, was attacked,' and alter a desperate resistance, in which all her gunpowder was expended, was boarded by the pirates. The struggle was continued on deck, where at one time twelve of tbe pirates Avere Jying dead; hut ultimately the crew Avere overpoAvered, when the captain and five cf hismen were killed and thrown overboard. The cbief mate and two others escaped by concealing themselves below. The pirates, after plundering the schooner of everything of value, seem-to have Mc her, and the male applied to Fuhchau for assistance. At the end of eight days her Majesty's gunboat Staunch arrived to her aid, and sent onboard some men to assist in bring tbe vessel to Hong Kong, where she arrived this morninsr.— China Mail.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 526, 27 August 1863, Page 6
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