CHINESE PIRATES
A SHIP SEIZED BRITISH ENGINEER KILLED PROMPT PUNISHMENT (British Official Wireless. — Copyright) RUGBY, Tuesday, A further 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 about 15 milts from Sam-shui, 25 miles w.est of Canton. The chler engineer, a British subject named B ack, was killed and thrown overboard, aud the ship was taken to Taiping-Hu, a large village inhabited by pirates, where 100 Chinese passengers and the crew- of the captured vessel were held to ransom. This was the third piracy from Taiping-Hu this year. Two days la.ter three British gunboats 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, Shekki, after it had been evacuated, was shelled as a demonstration. There were no casualties among the Briti sh or Chinese. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 15
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