Taken on Italian Ship: Dressed as Passengers, Intending to Loot Ship Tehang, Jan, 25.
The number of bullet holes in the amoke-stacks and framework the steamers plying between Lohan and Chungking testify that the other excitements than seeing! the flames leaping out of the tope the funnel ae the ship forces its way up the tearing rapids, the ional grind over some stoner, for sudden list as she is gripped by 1 mighty whirlpool. But up. till now piracy has not been amongst the thrills of this Journey.
Last week, however, the military] somehow got sod that number rates had boarded the str. obsing (Italian fag) as passer, ors, intending to loot the ship. A number of soldiers were sent 03 hoard to search the passengers three men were captured with r2- volvers concealed in their clothes, rit another dozen revolvers were ced up in different parts of the evidently thrown away by the pirates when they enw the soldiers] come on board.
The river is now getting Tow and! navigation demands great skill and nerve, The general report is that freight is not very plentiful, but as most of the steamers leave port avily loaded it is evident Two days ago letter from Batang ved saying that a mail carrier had been eaten by wolf and that a Hongkong & Shanghai Bank cheque that he was carr had suffered the same fate, Hong-Kong & Shanghai Bank cheques have no doubt had many and varied exe jonger to ths} for the etui and prosperous.—Reuter's ithe Serv periences but to have been eaten y wolves is surely unique. There Few str in tral Asin, we the Chi that present so many" its ficulties and dangers "as the -rua Tachienlu und Batang.
ormaily, it take the journey, but the ing delay sve so frequent and so numerous that i usually takes one month to do the journey, Robbers
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