CHINESE PIRATES.
LOOT STRANDED JAPANESE FEIGHTEE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) SHANGHAI, February 29. Indicative of the manner m which the China seas and coasts are infested by pirates, an incident is reported by a Japanese naval officer of the Kinkomaru, a Japanese freighter, which grounded on the island of Tantao in the. Formasan Straits. He wirelessed lor the assistance of the destroyer flotilla, which proceeded to the spot and found the vessel submerged except her stern. She was surrounded by over n hundred pirate ships. The pyffceijL were clambering over the unsubmexgecr portion. One of the vessels was compelled to turn machine guns on the pirates, driving them ashore. It was discovered that the pirates had looted the ship of everything detachable as well as the coal. The crew of 38 escaped prior to the pirate’s arrival and were later rescued unharmed.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 March 1928, Page 5
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