$80,000 Haul of Sycee and Valuable Cargo: Ship Taken to Pirates' Lair That the compa of freedom from scale on the China coast docs not mean that the pirates have gone out Jof business was rudely emphasized on Tuesday, when news was receiv-fed. in Shanghai of another daring tack, jous' piracy and accompanied, as is Jalmost invariably the case, by'bloodshed and loss-of life, The latest victim is the San Pek IS. N. Co.'s str. Ningshin, a vossob well-known in Shanghai and trading regularly between this port and: Foochow and other places on the const.
The Ningshin left Shanghai on Thursday last, under the command of Capt. Torgersen, with a large mumber of passengers, a considerable amount of cargo and a quantity of sycee, all for Foochow. The voyage was without incident until Friday when, as the vessel wns approaching. Wenchow; 34 pirates, who had shipped as passengers, took charge of the ship and made prisoner most of the crew, including the master and chief officer, both foreigners, and all lof the bond fide passengers. tos took complete charge which was navigated to Bias Bay, a notorious pirate stronghold and rendezvous not far from Hongkong, where 20 chests of sycee, some mails, consignment of pis goods und a considerable amount of booty which had been taken from che helpless passengers, was landed, Having got their booty safely ashore, the pirates abandoned the Ningshi which made for Amoy, at which po she is stated to have arrived on Tuesday. She was expected to ur-rive at Foochow on Wednesday and no doubt will be back in Shanghai in a day or two,
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