Three cheers for the Northeastern Fleet! At last one of its units is reported to have had an encounter: with the pirates of Haichow. It seems that recently the gunboat Tunghsiang encountered a suspiclous looking junk off Haichow a large four-masted affair, and upon being fired at by the junk the gunboat re-talloted with her guns and sunk her. in the fight, the Tunghsiang's cap-ain and two members of the crew were slightly injured, but 18 of the pirates were captured and brought to Tsingtao, They were eventually taken to Tsinan and dealt with in the usual manner. It is to [be hoped that Admiral Sheng will cause similar expeditions in the future against the pirates of chow for otherwise that locality would in the end be a second Bias Bay.
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