Steam Launch Robbed of Over:
Two Thousand Dollars Two more piracies in waters in the vicinity of Saanghai have been reyprted to the authorities, who have been notified that the miscreants in both cases injured members of the crews.
The first instance reported was that, at 8 p.m. on the 19th instant, the steam launch Vu Shing, betonging to the Tai Tung Steamship Ca in North Sooct"w Road was plying between Shanghai and Soochow, when she was attacked by a gang of between 20 and 30 unknown nen, who approached the vessel in three small boats. After boarding the Jaunch, the pirates bound the a countant and beat hit with the -butts of their rifles. They forced him to reveal] the place where money. was usually carried. Having roceived the information, they went to a safe, which they broke open, and, removed $300 in cash and a quantity of other valuables which had been entrusted to the care of the account ant, They also held up the passengers of the launch and took away their! belongings. Securing all they could, the scoundrels returned to their boats and rowed off. Booty taken was estimated at about $2,000, The ace|countant sustained severe injuries about the chest, back and hand: The vessel returned '0 Shanghi early on Sunday morning and the matter was reported to the management who have petitioned to the native authorities to apprehend the offenders.
In the second instunee, the Eh Ziang Tai junk, belonging to the Ziang Woo Auh Ca,, was on her way back to Shanghai' from Shantung Jaden with northern products on the evening of the 19th instant when a gang of more than a dozen mea, wearing red turbans, attacked he near Liuho. The "visitors" first entered the sleeping room of the Jaodah and secured $400 which was in his possession. Then they a search of the junk and managed to collect another $80 from the crew. One of the sailors decided Iyesist and lashed out with his fist. He was schn overpowered, however, and stabbed six or seven time:
The pirates then made off an have not since Izen seen. The junk was brought to Shanghai, the wounded man removed to Hospital, and the authorities were notified.
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