During the week nine of the northern gang that were in on th Piracy of the s, Pelan of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Ca. last December were executed in Canton. [What will be done with the remaining [two caught in various Canton hotels has not been settled.
Atler_making way with loot and Jcarrying into the hills. wealthy pas-Sengers of the Peian, this section of the pirate tribe was sent down south fo get in touch with the families of the Kidnapped. Members of one of these families occupied rooms in the same hostelry in which some of the criminal gang were staying.
When the pirates boarded ber, the Pelan was on her way from Shanghai fo Canton, She was about to put into [Swatow at the time.
Smuggling is by no means on the Jdecrease in the southland. Chinese (gunboats are notorious violators of the customs laws, and prevention fofticere of different bureaux have been punished with varying severity for loading their boats with every sort of an tilielt cargo. But something is being done nowadays about these official transgressions.
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