CHINESE TROUBLE.
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
CHINESE IT HATES, SHANGHAI. Nov. 11. The Nationalist forces controlled by the Nanking Government commenced Ji general offensive northwards and westwards of Tientsin and the Ptikow Railway and Yangtsc River respectively, undertaking operations on a large scale. Pirates operating in Yangt.se gorges introduced a novelty in their business, according to travellers arriving in Shanghai, including passengers released by the pirates, owing to their poverty. These describe the human auction mart, where the victims were carried off from the pirated vessels are divided into three classes, according to wealth, and auctioned to the liiidicstglfidder. who takes a risk as to tli6 amount of r.-msom he may obtain from the vict'im purchased.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1927, Page 3
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116CHINESE TROUBLE. Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1927, Page 3
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