ROUGH DEALING WITH CHINESE PIRATES.
The Chinese pirates have been having a lively time lately at the hands of the Eastern fleet. Recently, according to files received at Sydney by the steamer Airlie, one of the gunboats made a raid along the costs of Liaotung and Shantung, Four piratical vessels were discovered there, They attempted to get away, but were pursued and overhauled. Aj stiff fight ensued, in which two of the vessels were sunk, and 14 men killed. The re-
maining two vessels, with 57 men, wcr e captured. The gunboat towed the vessel 8 to Chefoo on the following day. The captives were at once tried. Twenty eight of the prisoners were found to belong to the crews of captured junks, and as they had been compelled to work for the pirates they were released. Twenty-nine men were discovered to he ex-soldiers, or Boxers, and 11 of the gang confessed- that they had plundered vessels. On the 28th ultimo three men were beheaded, and their heads were sent to Tasanho to be exposed. The remaining 18 men will also he decapitated.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 September 1901, Page 3
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183ROUGH DEALING WITH CHINESE PIRATES. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 September 1901, Page 3
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