PIRACY AND MURDER
PASSENGER BOAT LOOTED. FOUR KILLED, 20 WOUNDED. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, January 14. Piracy, murder, and violence, cul-i minuting in the death of three Chinese passengers, and the wounding ol a score of others marked the voyage of the steamer Paofoong, which left Shanghai on Wednesday night. The ship returned this afternoon with a terrible story of crime, committed when the vessel was within two hours of steaming into Shanghai. The ship was carrying four hundred Chinese passengers, includng fifty pirates, whose presence was unknown until they rushed the bridge and the euginerooin, taking command at pistol point. All the paseugers were robbed of clothing and valuables in a violent manner, during which three were shot dead, and a score of others were slashed viciously with knives. The passengers were herded on the decks while the pirates forced the officers to steer the vessel to Lonely Island, where junks removed the loot.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1932, Page 6
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