PIRACY IN 1908

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 154, 20 June 1908, Page 3

PIRACY IN 1908

i'ir.iey is not l»y iijiy ne.ans so nearly ♦•\t a- i-' ueueraiiy u^uiihml. '! lie M'tzuri' of {hr Neuvre in 111.- Soul ll Piliilic, ;i i reported llnni Sydney l 1 y. have happened in 'ln- il;iy> ui Captain Kidil. 'J'ho -teller .Mid male were made to walk ihe plank in tln* had old rd.yle, after "•ireh the name of tin- stolen vessel was ah'Ti'd to ilie White Hose. and her i.-iiiVi- *et fur l1»r rural 011 one (if which sin' ultimately went, ashore. Then I here wswl lie ea>e of the French >lnp I'm leineeii. v.-hi:■ h was looted by Mu-iiish pirates oil Cape .hlhy last- February. ami v. h«t.-e :• J e\v of nineteen men were <»nly saved from imminent death by tin- opportune arrival of |y»rd Momiimorres. wlm »oi. them by a ruse on hoard a little lliirly-tnn yacht lie was navi^:um<r. Somewhat earlier i» tin- year, a liltle further to tlie >oiii liward. a horde of black pirates attacked and looted th-' (ierm.in >t earner A--ear YVocrinaun. Near Shanghai, during the -;une w-rk. i.wii Inni'die-. we/'>» attaeked hy several hundred pirate- while ilown ; lII* river, tlnve .•Mil valueo at L'll.noti carried oil: while only the ntlier 'lay a dMermiiied al tempi \v;i- made hv munad Araii iribe-nien 1<» eaplnre a 15riti-h steamer jilvifj; o!i the Kuphrates. several of her pa--eiiL;- , r< aat I <-rn\v- ii''in,u killed or W"llU'led by i i(! t > lire. X 11;• do the almve ins{(tll''e- by lIIIV !111'.111~ e\han-l i lie ]t-l n\ outrages of Hi,- kMid (hat liave oecurred during the iirc-i'iii ve.ii i;>r bftween daiiiiary l-t ,nMinh l-t. act-nrdiiiLT ti> an Amei'jci:i Citn-'iln' import, no lewvr than i*i*iv; I 'i :•!,iof varion- sort- and <i/«'have been <apiiil'etl hv "pirates in and kjxiul tli" Philippine Islands.