The mystery of the whereabouts} of the Chief Officer (Mr. Arthur Westerheim) -was cleared up on October 1 -when the missing "man, badly wounded.and -weak from haustion, came ashore at Woosung and was rushed to the hospital where! hho now lies in the same'room with Mr. Westetheim, though seriously wounded in.a dozen places, made his! escape from his captors by taking his 1ife: in his hands, and, as with Capt. Haarlant's, his story' reads like a page from'a.tale of savagery of a handred years ago. Both men. principals in as daring and ruthless a piracy as has stirred the China Coast for years, were held captives and a! reward of $500,000 was de manded for them on pain of death.
Jast how close Mr. Westerbeim came to this villainous threat he related as he lay propped up in bed, his head and fect covered in bandages and his body sore from the roddings of the desperadoes as they Grove him with the butts of their rifles over hills and plains secking to evade the capture that was imminent. After nine days of hiding by day and moving by night, Mr. 'Westerheim found himself left cave with alone guard and the rough-and-tumble fight that follow. ed, in which he wrested his captor's gun away, to find it unloaded, was but one of the many thrills' that came to this 34-year-old Norwegian sailor who in the past three weeks has faced more dangers than come to the average man in a life time.
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