SET AFIRE BY PIRATES
YANGTZE RIVER STEAMER
SURVIVORS' STORY
.SHANGHAI; January 26.
The death-roll in the Yangtze Biver shipping disaster is now estimated at 500.
Bescued passengers claim that the vessel was set afire by pirates, ten of whom escaped in two small boats after throwing casks of tallow and cotton into the engine-room when their plans to loot the vessel were npset as it grounded on a sandbank.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 11
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69SET AFIRE BY PIRATES Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 11
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