The Archive · 1901

The Pirate Scare

Yangehiakou seems to have' been effectunily dealt with by the prompt rea. ponse to the complaint of Mr. Fowler, the American Consul in Chefoo. A gun: boat was sent round the coast and im: mediately piracy resolved itself into the appearance of a humble fisherman gaining an honest livelihood in his ordinary occupation. The Governor is to be cunt mended for thus reducing to order a condition of things which threatened for. a time to seriously hamper all the coastwise

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