Further facts were related by Miss MaeNair, one of the four ladies hance of relating ie, eontlaued bray "wae. net 0 bad really. tt Jeeemed like a story out of a book and It was tremendously exeitin Aileen Clift, aged eight years, and Jher brother Norman, who are from Hangchow, stood wide-eyed and pointed at' the Master of the Tungchow. "He is the bravest man, im put his hands up. the smiled at us and said—Don't be afraid, They won't hurt you chil-
The little girl somewhat ruefully displayed a bruised arm and re~ marked:—"Look where the pirates bumped me. I pushed a man away from me and he bumped me. No, I Jaid not ery, but I was frightened."
While his sister was relating her. story, Norman stood by with a non-[chaiant air, but when she had finished the asserted:—The most frightened people in the ship were the pirates, jand when the seaplane came roaring lover they ran about, waving guns and shouting. Some of them escaped in junk and the others who were left [said that they would kill us all if the Bane bombed them."
Capt, Smart admitted having twice sighted vessels after the pirates had taken control of the ship, but he steered clear of them. He had no doubt the pirates would have killed the children, as they had threatened, rufous had decamped. The struggle for the relic, which waxed fast and furious for a long while, ended very satisfactorily, as practically every participant emerged with a tiny piece of the garment—Revter. who, with Mr, P. J. Duncan, were escorting the children.
"I was in my cabin," said Miss Mac-Nair, when some of my girls burst in most excitedly, saying that men were shooting each other on deck. I came down the corridor and saw a pirate jabbing Mr. Duncan with a revolver, "The shooting made the children very nervous, but there was no panto. In fact, the children were more at home than anyone and quickly-made
teen preparatory school boys, all under ten years, were especial favourites of the pirates, particularly of the ferocious-looking' chief, who raided the ship's stores to supply them with delicacies, heard the pirates paid $4,000 for information that the ship carried an Jenormous amount of kulllon, and, when they discovered this informa: tion was incorrect, they said thay had lost heavily on the piracy."
Bat But Pleasant Miss MacNair then gave an example of the good feeling existing between the pirates and the children, "Th pirates." she said, "rifled a part of the cargo of oranges, upon which the chief, discarding -his weapons, ate some and, with a broad grin' on his face, pelted the preparatory school kiddies ith oranges. the children thoroughly sninving the tun, Miss McNair described the leader the pirates es a very young man, suit he was apnarentiy an old hand the game. His treatment of the children was, in her opinion, "very eqsonable" ax he did not molest hem tu any way and stlowed them three merils a dev dering the three riv they were herded in the saloon
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