London, Aug. 19.
Island, ten miles from Hongkong, was raided last night by a band of forty pirates. dian police constables were killed, the cafe was rifled and 81,000 stolen. The European police sergeant, who was sleeping on the higher levels, was not disturbed.
A rainy August culminated yesterday in violent thunderstorms, cloudbursts throughout the country completing the ruin of the harvests. The damage done to the potato crops in two districts of Lincolnshire is alone estimated at £100,000. Aug. 20.
The pirates seized a launch and escaped, apparently with them the police shroff.
Later.
The rains have been specially destructive to the hay crop, and it is a common sight to see ducks swimming in the fields amongst floating From later particulars that have been obtained it appears that the! pirates simultaneously attacked the police station, a pawnshop and hay. It is estimated that the loss will amount to at least. 25,000,000. In contrast with this disaster there is a glut of English apples at the a grocer's shop, looting property of Covent Garden market.
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