Two-Hour A message from Soochow states that on Thursday the Chief Constable of the 3rd Division' of the Marine Public Safety Bureau directed four corps of constables, aboard 47 sampans, in an attack on the pirates" lair before the Shek Yen Temple in the Tsingpu District.
'The pirates numbered more than 100, and it was not until after a Chinese press states, are vigorously two hours' battle that they were|ransem were released. the return of the C. M. S. overcome. Five pirates were killed is believed now to, have been dis and four of their sampans were
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