CHINESE PIATES
MURDER AND VIOLENCE. (Received Friday, 10.40 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Thursday. Piracy, murder and violence, culminating in the death of three Chinese passengers and the wounding of a score of others marked the voyage of the/ steamer Paofoong, which left Shanghai on Wednesday night.
The ship returned this afternoon with a terrible story of crime committed when the.vessel was within two hours steaming of Shanghai.
The ship was carrying 400 Chinese passengers, including fifty pirates, whose presence was unknown until they rushed the bridge and engine room, taking command at pistol point.
All the passengers were robbed of clothing and valuable in a violent manner during which three were shot dead and a score of others slashed viciously with knives.
The passengers were herded below decks while the pirates forced the officers to steer the vessel to a lonely island where junks removed the loot.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 January 1932, Page 5
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