CHINESE PIRATES.
BRITISH TUG ATTACKED SEVERAL OF CREW SHOT. Pi ee J Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright. SHANGHAI, Thursday. Within twenty-four hours of the release of Captain Lawlor (from the hands of Yangtsze River pirates), bandits swooped upon a British tug in the vicinity of Captain Lawlor’s capture and demanded the surrender of the British captain for ransom. When he was not forthcoming, they shot- several of the crew, carried off two hostages, •and looted the vessel. A British gunboat pursued and met the bandits as they were escaping to the shore. A number of the bandits were slain :uul a stolen launch was recovered.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1927, Page 5
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