A DARING PLOT
PIRATES PLAN TO CAPTURE CRUISER. (By Telegraph-Press Assn—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.) PEKIN, June 23. The limit of daring achieved by Chinese pirates was the recent attempt to capture the largest cruiser in the Chinese Navy, the Haichi, off Chefoo. When it was expected that the crew of the Haichi would be ashore on leave, a gang of thirty-three pirates commandeered a small Chinese steamer and compelled the captain to proceed to the Haichi. The latter’s crew, however, had not been granted leave, and the pirates were forced to abandon the attempt. The alarm meanwhile was given and the police charged the gang when they were landing and captured nine. The remainder, including the leader, escaped.
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Southland Times, Issue 19279, 25 June 1924, Page 5
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117A DARING PLOT Southland Times, Issue 19279, 25 June 1924, Page 5
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