CHINESE PIRATES
In "Corsairs of the China Seas" is told the story of the pirates who. still openly ply their trade, aloiig the coast of China and in its . broad rivers. "Bok," the author^ remarks that pirates along the co'astof China are. as common as bootleggers .were in America, and will always be, as .long as there, is not a navy sufficiently strong to suppress them. "It will be many years before China will attain security along her coastline. Meanwhile, our' Navy patrols the seas and protects the shipping lanes; yet, in spite of this, others of the Pirate species successfully levy their toll upon the- shipping, even though all the cards are stacked against them, with wireless, swift gunboats, iron grills on the ships, and armed guards, ever on the gui vive against surprise attacks.'" The pirates,' . one gathers, are gentlemen/in \so far that they do riot molest towns?which > provide them With all the "excitement they require in addition to pirating—^gambling, opium, and pretty., girls.' A number of good photographs illustrate this book, which isi published by• Herbert Jenkins. ' ; *: V ■
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Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 26
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181CHINESE PIRATES Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 26
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