CHINESE PIRATES
ATTACKS MADE ON STEAMERS OUTRAGE IN HANGCHOW BAY. ENGINEER KILLED & OTHERS TAKEN PRISONER. SHANGHAI, June 3. Following Wednesday’s attack by pirates on a steam tender belonging to the Dollar Line on the Yangtse Kiang River and the taking of booty worth £2500, armed junks with a complement of 100 boarded a small Portuguese cargo steamer entering Hangchow Bay and threw hand grenades, killing the second engineer and smashing the mainmast. The pirates abandoned the prize three hours later, taking the purser and four Chinese sailors as hostages. They also took all the available valuables.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1938, Page 7
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