The commission of inquiry now sitting at Hongkong in connexion with the piracy on the Sui An is bringing out many interesting points. The story that the pirates were led by a woman seems to be corroborated on many hands; indeed one witness mentions the presence at the head "of the gang of two people "who locked like women'? and who appear to have had unmistakable feminine voices. Then there seems to have been what might almost be called a very great consideration for their victims, as more than one case has transpired where the pirates apparently did not want to rob particular individuals. At one moment the suggestion was uppermost in their minds that as the captain of the Sui An had been seriously injured he should be thrown' over the side "'og they did not want to have any corpses on board," but on the intervention of a foreign passenger who seems to have pointed out with great succinctness that their business was robbery and not murder, they desisted and helped to carry the wounded man to his cabin. While, however, one might dwell on such strange features of the case, the Court hag had to deal with the more practical matter of the use of the'grills on board and defen-siva measures. It transpires that while grills must be installed the
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