After Surrendering to Free booters: Sensational Piracies A Hongkong telegram to the reports sensational ates on the Chinese gunboat Kiangtah, probably with the connivance of the crew of the man-of-war, who were discontented for having' received no pay for a Yang Pirates were concealed on board the Kiangtah, the captain and subcommander were overpowered and bound up, and the gunboat was forced to proceed to the Heungshan District.
Three boats on the Hongkong-Shekki run, and a dozen or more boats carrying silk and five or six boats carrying other cargoes were systematically pillaged by the gunboat. The total value of the booty is estimated to amount to between {$700,000 and $800,000. It is believed this was the biggest case of piracy committed in the Canton delta in recent years, Upon the approach of a British gunboat, the pirates made off in a Tauneh they had commandeered, taking with them the Captain as hostage and most of the armament of the Kiangtah, including some machine guns and a Maxim gun, The Kiangtah then returned: to Whampoa on the afternoon of Juno
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