Hong district, Woosung, early on January 18, the gunboat Ching: hsin became engaged with half a dozen pirate craft. A fight ensued during which 20 of the pirates were killed.
The pirate junks were noticed moving about in a manner which appeared to those on board the: gunboat to be very suspicious so the latter called upon them to stop and submit to search. Instead of obeying, the pirates opened fire on the gunboat with rifles and machine guns, and this, of course, was returned, A flores engagement lasted for well over two hours, after which the pirates attempted to escape, Chase was given and tone of the juriis was captured. Al hands had, however, jumped overboard so no arrests were made, During the fight, the gunboat fired more than 209 si tells and over 1,000 rounds of rifle ammunition and a. score of the pirates were killed.
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