Reasons why the pirates operating] Jaround the mouth of the Yangtze fand. around" Woosung cannot be fetfectively and quickly suppressed rare given at a joint meeting of the fnilitary and police offtists Woosung, Paoshan, and Kiargwan, held at Woosung on Sunday morning.
'According 0. a statement of an} official who attended the meeting. there are at present more than 600 rates with their lair on a small Island. outside Woosung. and they' have 80 junks at their disposal. This slond, according to the official con-Jeerned, has been surrounded sever times "by water police but always in such a shallow state that extremely difficult for even lit vessels to approach, much less ger and heavier vessels. The! result is that the pirates know when the authorities are coming and they] either make preparations to defend their positions or they flee if they] happen to know that the landing] force is a fairly large one. Guards fare posted at every" strategic point fon. the island by the pirates and, fore the soldiers are able to land, they find themselves under the heavy} fire, the pirates having always, apparently, a. sufficient supply of rifles, gars and ammunition, Another gang of more than 1,000] pirates are also hiding on an island, The conditions of which are exactly Hmmilar to that of the one previously mentioned, but this is" Haimen, whereas the other is in the Chihtung District. 'The marauders on, Haimen Leland are also. well-organized and well supplied with munitions, and have more than 100 junks at' thei dorsement of both the Minister of Industry, Commerce & Labour and of the Central University. Mr, Tsou spends two days a week in Nanking, and devotes all the rest of his time to the local Bureau,
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