It is reported that Messra. Banker & Ca., of Wuchow, have received an urgent telegram from their Nanning office reporting that their motor boat Tien Fat trading between Nanning and Pose has been attacked by pirates, resulting in the loss of many lives on board, including the ship's head compra-dare and No. 2 pilot, says the "Hongkong Daily Prees"' of November 5.
The telegram does not give much detail beyond that "several tens of men were killed," including the two members of the ship's crew as above stated, and the ship's cargo completely looted, but it is surmised that the unfortunate vessel was on her downward trip from Pose to Nanning, and when passing a narrow channel about mid-way she was fired at from the banks. The firing must have been directed at the wheel-hous> to have caused the assistant pilot's death, and that of the compradore, whose room it next to the wheel-house.
This is the third piratical attack on foreigners and foreign ships reported to have taken place within five weeks in the provino> of Kuangsi.
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