The following day the cargo, com, prising 500 cases of kerosene and large shipment of food supplies, articles of furniture and the passen+ gers! personal effects were removed. The pirates tied the hands of the Chinese passengers and carried them off for ransom, excepting four mis sion servants, The captives were deprived of their blankets and clothing and suffered greatly from the cold, The pirates left the ship the same evening.
Next morning the ship was re= floated but later went aground on the mud flats, when it was visited by several gangs of pirates jes and thirties armed with ors, Each gang in turn looted the vessel. The last lot, enraged at finding nothing valuable, took away the shoes from the fect of one of the sisters and a hat and cent from Father Fletcher. The missionaries lost everything except the clothing they wore, and arrived in Hongkong to-day in a very nere vous condition, The sisters are all well—Reuter,
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