Ship Designed by Japanese to Trap the Sea-Rover xox A Conesroxenr Swatow, June 8.
A. Japanese shipowner interested in the South China coastal trade has now under construction in Jao pan a steamer specially planned to frustrate any attempt on the part of pirates to seize her, whether on the high seas or in port. racy on the China Sea," be said in conversation with me, "has ever been a Chinese institution as banditry has been on land, Tt is only in these days of wireless communication and fast steam services that the evilized world gets shocked whenever a ease of piracy is ree ported, but you must not overlook the fact that in the old times piracy cases in China are a common occur However, to permit Chinese pirates to get away with i when we have so many means to get the better of them at our immediate disposal is obviously foolish,
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