CHINESE PIRATES
PLANS FOR SUPPRESSION. FIFTEEN EXECUTIONS. fPrese Association—By Telegraph —Copyright ) SHANGHAI, January 26. The foreign Powers have voluntarily abandoned the plan jointly to suppress piracy in South China, according to <» report from Peking, due to the expense of providing necessary gunboats and the possibility of the Chinese misunderstanding such action. It is understood that as an alternative the Powers will request the Nationalist Government to undertake effective measures for the suppression of piracy on the coasts of the ukien and Kwangtung provinces, and to guarantee the safe navigation of foreign vessels plying these waters. Fifteen pirates who participated in th© Sannamhoi piracy on January 17, resulting in the death of a British officer and Indian guards, were executed. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20318, 28 January 1928, Page 11
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