The wounded person in the attack Mr. John Pryde Ross, whose parents reside at 120 Baikal Road, Shanghai.
Mr. Ross, who came out from home to join the China Navigation Ca. on November 18 is the son' of Capt and ates. W./S. Ross of Shan fat present in Hankow.
Me. Tomilehi Yamamoto 25 old, who was among the six forel captures, taken by the pirates was a teacher of the Tonya College, a school for Chinese, at Tongshan.
He was en route to Tsingtao on business, according to the investigations of the Japanese Consular Police here. Mr. Yamamoto, who speaks Chinese fluently, was at one time ployed. as an' interpreter by the Japanese army in north China.
Most of the passengers commented lon the fact that the pirates chose ax [their captives only the younger of their fellow travellers.
At the time of the piracy, Licutenant P. L. Field, of H.MS. Oswald, Jand Lieutenant J. D. Luce, of HM. Osiris, who were among "the captives, were returning to Weihaiwei after a visit to Peking. Mr. H. Handley-Derry, the British Consul-General at Tsingtao. was returning with his wife from Peking, after hav {ng received medical treatment there.
'Among the Chinese who were ta) prisoner by the pirates was no less personage than' Mr. Shen Tien-lin, who served as Minister of the Interior under Marshal Wu Pel-fu in the old Peking administration, There were several American pasjsenzers among the travellers in the s. Shuntien, but none of their num=
[ber was unfortunate enough to be abducted.
The Americans were Mrs. Warren.
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