AN ACT OF PIRACY.
CHINESE STUDENTS KIDNAPPED
(Reuters Telegram.; (Received December 9. 10 a.m.) PEKIN, Dec. 8. Thirty-eight Chinese members of the staff and students of Canton Christian College were kidnapped on Saturday night while proceeding to the college from Canton aboard a launch by six well-dressed bandits, who, mingling wit* tho passengers, at a given signal took charge of the vessel, which wafi flying the American flag. The vessel was sent back, with one foreign lady and a number of Chinese girls who "were aboard. All the men were taken inland.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16606, 9 December 1924, Page 7
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