No Serious Damage Done and Little Loot Hongkong, Dec. 22, A wireless despateh from Cantor' states that the small Japanese st. hMurea Kaisha of Kobe Ryujin Maru, belonging to. the
(Captain Yamasaki), which went aground yesterday evening at the mouth of the Whampoa River, was. attacked at 10 o'clock last evening. by river pirates, who came alongside in sampans and boarded the vessel.
The pirates, who were armed, held up the Japanese officers and forced them to stay in their cabins while they looted the ship. After they had taken all they wanted, the desperadoes departed in the sampans in which they had come.
Their haul did not amount much, There were no casual and no hostages" were taken.
The Ryujin Maru is stil! aground, but is expected to be refloated withiculty—Reuter, di, Wang Po-chun, Minister of Communications, who succeeded Mr. Sun Fo as president of the National Avintion Corporation, has ordered the amalgamation of the Chiaotungpu Shanghai-Chengta Air Service with that of the Corporntion to enable the service to be be run more economically and efficient.
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