Encounter with Marauders off Peitaiho Shanghai, June 23.
Prompt action on the part of the [Chinese authorities in the north has resulted in the round-up of a group Jot pirates in the vicinity of Peitaiho by the Chinese gunboat Anhal, ac-Jeording to a Chinese report received from Poking yesterday.
The Chinese gunboat was despatched to the scene following re-Jeelpt of information that a group of pirates were on their way to Peitaiho jin junks with the apparent intention Jof landing at the summer resort to plunder the holiday-makers there.
Upon arrival, the gunboat was greeted with a fusillade of shots by the pirates. The shooting was replied to, during' which machine-guns on the gunboat were brought into play. After four hours' encounter, the pirate junks, having suffered heavy casualties, made for the shore. When they were all rounded up, it was found that seventeen of them had been shot Jdead. Twenty-one pirates, including Jo man named Wang Fu-tang, the leader, were arrested. The members of the crew also suffered some casval-
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