Careful Fanning of Pirates: Misinformation Regarding Banknotes in Cargo to its conclusion with the arrival of the C.N, s. Tungchow of the most thrilling episodes of the China Coast was brought Shanghai on the morning of Thursday, February 7. Nine days. previously she had sailed from the same jetty, carrying 10 children and their five escorts for the spring term of the China Inland Mission Schools in Chefoo.
During that nine~tay period the Tungchow was lost to the world for the frst three, having been pirated shortly after leaving Shanghai, She wns forced to change course and sail southward with her precious freight, eventually putting into Honghal Bay, north of Bias Bay, where the pirates left her. Though a short but spirited resistance was put up by guards and officers in the ship, the piracy was so successful that not word was received by an anxious world from the morning of January 29 to the forenoon of February 1, when the terse message "Tungchow located", from the wireless cabin of a British warship, was flashed to Hongkong.
The whole incident was ennobled by the heroism of Sgt. Ivan V. Tiichomiroff, of the Russian nards on the steamer, who gave his life, Aghting hard and against overwhelming odds, in an effort to carry out his duty, and protect his young charges.
The piracy was not entirely without its happy side, however, for the children bore themselves bravely, and there was never a sign of panic among them.
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