correspondent of the " South China Morning Post" writing, from ichoufu, East River, on August 30, states that on the previous evening, at about 8 o'clock. the steam-launch Fookchan was captored by pirates who were travelling as pas-rongers, and who had come aboard in small numbers from Canton to Poklo. The number of pirates totalled about thirty. They threatened the pilot with death if be did not at once stop the launch, and when the pilot complied all the passengers and crew were sent down below and there search- of while all valuables were looted.
The pirates then turned their at tion to the daily passenger boat. As she came up the pirates fired at ber, and then brought the launch alongside and swarmed on deck, murdered the captain of the tow boat, looted everything valuable, and then beached the steamer off Lofatan, where they decamped. Six passengers are known to hi mordored and the pilot of chan is supposed to a posed tobe well guarded by weterpalee sup-
boats.—"8. C. M. P
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