CHINESE PIRATES
A SHIP SEIZED BRITISH ENGINEER KILLED PROMPT PUNISHMENT (British Official Wireless. — Copyright) Reed 21.32 a.m. RUGBY, Tuesday. A furtier outbreak by Chinese pirates has received prompt punishment by the British naval authorities. On September 1 the Koochow, a Chinese-owned steamer, flying the British flag, was captured by pirates abou>; 15 miles from Sam-shui, .‘JS miles west of Canton. Th= chief engineer, a British subject named Black, was killed and thrown overboard, and the ship was ialien to Taiping-Hu, a large -village inhabited by pirates, where 100 Chinese passengers and the cr,-w of the captured vessel were held to ransom. This was the third piracy from Taiping-Hu this year. Two days later three British gunooats the Cicada, the Moth, and the Moorhen, took retaliatory action. They arrived at Taiping-Hu, warned the inhabitants to leave, and then burned a number of houses and native craft. The adjoining pirate village, Shekel, after it had been evacuated, was shelled as a demonstration. There were no casualties among the British or Chinese.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 143, 7 September 1927, Page 1
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