CHINESE UNREST.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19146, 1 November 1927, Page 9

CHINESE UNREST.

J ♦-- I PIRATES SEIZE FRENCH STEAMER. ESCAPE WITH BOOTY. «..««.*-«»»» ASSOCIATION-COrTBIGIITj ' firSSf. *s» *•»■ "»" SHANGHAI, October 30. A dramatic fight between pirates i w d military guards aboard the * French steamer Kiangking, trading in ! ; the Yangtse gorges, took place on >] 6 lbttieday, two hours after the vessel s I departure from Chang up river. { On entering the shallows, with I mttodramatic suddennuess, a dec* i commenced between 30 pirates i tfiguised as passengers and a dozen \ S Hito and pistols were used. After lite fight had lasted an hour, the, ©ards were beaten. Sixty passeiimt guards, and pirates were killed « wounded. The dead were thrown oTerboird. and the outlaws stripped the remaining passengers of valulUes, and of clothing in some in«t»lCe». . , , . n xi ' i They forced the crew to • halt the Twsel tt a desert«d spot, and went whore, carrying their booty.

QUBBNSLANDER ARRESTED. UWnUUAX AND V.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) •.' SHANGHAI, October.3o. A threat of trouble hangs over Nanling as a result of an iutiMng Macalister, a Queenslander, /rto recently started out but aban\oofled his search for the missing It Time*" correspondent, Mr Riley. \ Mr Macalister was sojourning at Suiting, acting as honorary •• corresybtatt for a local paper. He was twdting in an automobile with Mr Tw«A>Ttßother British resident, in tbe Britiih Concession, when they ran erer and injured a' Chinese soldier. Jfacftttrterand Tweedy were arretted, and 2600 dollars were demanded at eortpentation for the soldier. Tba ear, which is the property of tb French, Postal Commissioner, was •toed. _ • Macalister referred the matter to the British Consul for settlement. He r»i told that it was impossible to tiiti .and unless the amount was pud in three days tho Chinese military conunander would refuse to ac«pi wponaibihtv for the behaviour •t the troas.Um British senior naval officer of W l'angtfift flotilla is investigating «e incident.