BATTLE WITH PIRATES
DARING SHANGHAI COUP (Australian and N.Z Press Association) Reed. Noon. SHANGHAI, Tuesday. At the verv doors of Shanghai, piracy was "committed which tho Chinese authorities are endeavouring to keep dark. It appears that a junk laden with beau oil from Dairen, with a crew of IS, encountered a pirate craft with 60 men. . . A regular battle ensued, resulting in the killing of 15 of the junk’s crew and an unknown number of pirates, who, finding the cargo useless for their purposes, demanded and obtained 16,000 dollars before liberating the junk.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 517, 21 November 1928, Page 9
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