Started at 14: Twice Married to Gang Leaders Canton, Oct. 1 'One of the most notorious women' bandits ever known in China is now. safely behind the bars in the heavily. Jguarded military prison at Weiyang. Kwangtung. Caught and convicted recently for piratical activities, Including participation in raids on [numerous coastal steamers, she is at Present serving a term of life im prisonment which may yet be altered fo sentence of death on reference 1 high authorities.
'Youthful and _attractive-looking, but completely ruthless, Tan Ching-Jehiao was known throughout South. JChina, and particularly in Hongkong and Canton, as "Queen of the Bias Bay pirates." During her sixteen years' of criminal adventure, she participated in the daring piracies of the steamers An Tung. Hsin Hua, Luchan Maru, Tai Yi, and many other vessels, and her depredations on towns and villages in the neighbourhood of Bias Bay and Waiyang were among the in the annals of her
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