*Not Worth Holding for Ransom"
Hongkong, Dec. 5. is learned that" three of the our victims of the piracy committed the. French ea, Commandant Henri Itiviere on November 26 have mostly" at night in order to. escape After three days of hilllimbing,
wealthy" Chinese. passengers" who the ent. of soldiers, the four were abducted, were finally interrofated' by the' pirate thiel. "Evens 5 tually, he released three of them ax not being worth holding for ransom, Each of the three was given $3 0 enable him to return home, The four captives are Wa Ching, 4 Haiphong merchant; Chang Sing-io, at one time an officer in the Chi. nese Maritime Customs; Lai Ho: sing, formerly an officer in the Cantonese army; and Mong Kwok, a Kuangtung gambler, Mr. Chan Sing-po is still being detained by the
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