Collared Near Hongkong Taken to Bias Bay and There Looted as Usual The str, Sandviken, chartered by the Soviet Mercantile Fleet, and plying between Canton and Shanghai, was pirated on the. night of August 21 by a gang who boarded the vessel in Canton as passenger According to the offers. of the vessel, which arrived in Shanghai two days ago, the pirates took complete charge of the ship and forced the officers to navigate her to the pirate rendezvous in Bias Bay, where the passengers were robbed, One day after the vessel hid lett Canton, captain Norwuals, the master, went on a tour of inspection of the ship. Noticing that one of the passengers seemed to be armed, the captain attempted to search the man, whereupon he was attacked by several others and overcome. The pirates then swarmed over the ship and soon had the officers and 120 Chinese passengers in their power.
Otders were given to take the ship to Bias Bay. On arriving there two of the pirates took one of the life boats and rowed ashore, where they secured a junk. 'The passengers were then lined up and robbed of all their valuables, the value of which is unknown.' Little attontion, however, was paid to the cargo of the ship, which consisted of general merchandise, On leaving the ship, the pirate gang took as hostages the first officer and the steward. Both men were released and allowed to row back to the ship in the life boat when the junk had landed,
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