CHINESE PIRATES
JAPANESE FREIGHTER LOOTED Shanghai, February 29. Indicative of the manner in which the China seas and coasts are infested with pirates is an incident reported by the Japanese Naval Office The Kinko Maru, a Japanese freighter, grounded on the island of Tantao, in the Formosan Straits, and wirelessed for assistance. A destroyer flotilla proceeded to the spot and found the vessel submerged, except for the stern, and surrounded by over a hundred pirate ships. All descriptions of pirates were clambering over the unsubmerged portion on which the naval men were compelled to turn their machine-guns on the pirates, driving them ashore. They discovered that the pirates had looted the ship of everything detachable, and also the coal. The crew of 38 had escaped prior to the pirates’ arrival. They were later rescued unharmed.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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135CHINESE PIRATES Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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