In the Tai YI piracy, she led the attack on the ship and, with her own. hands, shot dead the officer in com~ mand of the guards. The story of the: plot in connection with this outrage reads like fiction, but actually it was: Jearried out with complete success. Tan Ching-chiao boarded the ship disguised as a foreign lady carrying, baby in her arms. She aroused no suspicion and, ence on board,—was able to distribute among her gang pistols and ammunition which she bad hidden in the stomach of the baby, which was a dead one.
This incident led to a report that a foreign woman had married a Chinese pirate leader, and the real story iwas only disclosed after Tan Chinglchigo's arrest a few weeks ago,
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