The piracy of the Shuntien is the frst in which Capt, Carl Chris tlansen, the vessel's master, been involved, His Chief Ameer, Mr. OW. Richards, has been in a previous piracy, however, 'Mr. Richards' was in the C. N, s, /Siangtan, when she was pirated In the Yangtze, Just' below chang, on November 80, 1927, when two. pas: Jsengers were wounded, two members fof the crew shot dead, a large sum of money looted, and' the master, Capt. Later, carried off for ransom, The bandits carried out their raid bby approaching the vessel, when she anchor, in sampans, fung pi as they approach Mr. Watson, junior third engineer, who was one of those kidnapped by the pirates on Monday, is new in the service of the China Navigation Ca, having come out from home fast year,
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