Left Their Guns Behind
Check for Chinese Pirates
The full story of the seizure and subsequent release of the British steamer Kiangwo. reported on March 27, is now available. The Kiangwo was held up on the way to Hankow by rifle fire from the shore, and from sampans. After the ship’s officers had been intimidated with automatic pistols. 3,000 Kweichow troops boarded her and forced the of- ! fleers to put about down-stream again, j On the Kiangwo’s arrival back at ! Kiukiang two day’s later, the British ' warships Wild Swan and Woodlark in- i tercepted her. After making the vessel j anchor in midstream, the commander of the two warships notified the commander of the Kweichow troops that they must disembark immediately, leaving their arms behind them as security for the payment of compensation for their having piratically commandeered the vessel and for damage to her. After some difficulty' this was done. *nd all the soldiers were off the ship by the following morning, leaving 2,000 rifles and some machine-guns.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 68, 11 June 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)
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169Left Their Guns Behind Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 68, 11 June 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)
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