connexion with the pleacy of the China Merchant's 8, N, Cos str. Kwanglee, we learn from informa tion obtained through a letter received from one of its officers, that the pirates numbered between 40 and 50 Cantonese and that they Jat Shanghai one a 1¢ Kwanglee as passengers It appears that, when the ship was two and half miles from Hong: kong, two of the pirates went down into the engine room where the officer in question was on watch and. ordered him to make full speed, enforcing their orders wi tols with which they threatened to Kill him no fewer than three times, 'Three of the pirates took charge of the officers who were on watch' on the bridge and ordered them to proceed somewhere off Ling Tim Island in order that they might get away with their booty and eapti 'The pirates' first action after gaining control of the bridge and engine room was to secure all the guns on the ship and, in doing so they, seriously wounded two members'of the crew. Their next move was to drag the captain from his cabin, take all his personal belongings and wreck the place and then repeat the performance with the remaining officers.
Officers and passengers alike were robbed, some passengers and members of the crew being kidnapped.
Before leaving the ship about 530 pam. the pirates dumped the cargo overboard, played havoc with. some of the deck fittings, ordered the officers to run the vessel aground on Ling Tim Island under full steam, Ling Tim Island is a famous pirate resort, near Bins Bay, about 10 miles from Hongkong and nearly on #he wiver of Canton, After this had licen done the pirates damaged the boilers, threatened to burn the ship, and finally lowered two life boats and left, being picked up by a junk which ind come from the shore.
At mid-night the ship was ye~ floated and stated to the Island of Tai Shan, where repairs to her boilers were mad The pirates threatened that they would make another raid on the same ship in the near future but promised that, this raid would not be made by the same gang.
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