During the course of the voyage, after the pirates had control of the. vessel, a British destroyer wi but the Captain of the!
as warned that if he made any signal he would be shot.
Phe Captain describes. th leaders as being quite "yer: tlem ly" in the jour, and he star that the fief at one handed him a huge sum in Hong-Kong banknotes, but this was Tater, ennteked from him by one of the other pirates.
The str. tana! is a very. well Known cousting vessel belonging ta the—Compagnic Indeehinoise Navigation, of which the Messagerias Maritimes are the Local agents, is the second French but runn out of Kwang Chow Wan to be re. cently victimised, the former outrage oceurting on the etr. Jade.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.