PIRATES AT WORK.
CHINESE JUNK LOOTED. CREW HACKED TO PIECES. United Press Association—By Electtic Telegraph Copyright i Received May 21, 10.5 a.m. SYDNEY, May 21. News has been received of an attack by pirates on a Chinese junk in Johore waters. The crew of the junk were hacked to pieces with knives, the pirates laughing at the screams of their victims. Afterwards the junk was looted of valuables. Johore is in the extreme south of the Malay Peninsula, its southern half extending from the Straits j>f Malacca to the bouth Uiina Sea.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3195, 22 May 1909, Page 5
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92PIRATES AT WORK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3195, 22 May 1909, Page 5
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