The Archive · 1923

West River Piracy

Canton, Dec. 29.

Yunnan troops stationed near Mongkong, a town above Wuchow, on the West River, carly this week captured a motorboat belonging to Mr. J. Hockveen, an agent of the Asiatic Petroleum Company in Kuangsi. The British gunboats, the Moth and the Cicada, have been despatched up river from Canton for the protection of foreign interests.—Reuter.

Tue wedding wi take. place shortly of Mr. Cyril F. Maltby, of the Chartered Bank, Hongkong, and Miss Doris K. Stevens, who is now en route from England by the str. Atsuta Maru.

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