Fleet of Twenty Junks Held Up With Hundred Victims An interesting report is cure to the ect that Chinese boats have succeeded in row ing up a large pirate gang some distance away from Woosung and that, while they have not yet been fable' to get to close grips with the there are prospects that some 100 kidnapped victims will eventually, bbe liberated.
Tt appears that a gunboat was cruising in the Yangtze, outside Woosung, when five pirate junks were encountered. Machine guns were brought into play and after comparatively short engagement, it reported, ten robbers wore killed, five captured and a junk seized, Acting on inform from the prisoners, the captain of the gunboat secured the assistance fof other naval vessels and set out for the robber lair, some distance up the Yangtze. 'The spot was {found and some twenty or so pirate junks were seen herded together in stretch of water too shallow for the gunboats to reach them. A blockade has consequently been' set up, and the pirate fleet surrounded while the authorities devise some means of capturing them.
Tt is not desired, we understand, to blow the whole pirate fleet to vieces, because the authorities have information to the effect that the have in their custody no fewer ims of the activities of kidnappers in and around Shanghai, wealthy farmers,
position appears to be then, that the like. The the naval authorities will maintain 'a close blockade on the place, while means are devised to capture the gang and liberate their victims.
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