The Archive · 1934

Piracy Appeal Case Postponed

Port Arthur, Sept. 15.

'The proceedings in connection with the appeal of Captain Hugo Taudien and four other Europeans agains! the sentences imposed on them on charges of piracy and marder have been. postponed "The prisoners were sentenced after 'a long' trial following the piracy of the s. Sheng An on June 28, 1933 when ten persons aboard were murdered.

Taudien, the alleged leader of the gang, was sentenced to death, awas" Heinrich Westermann, - while Arthur Gauchi and Walter" Muller and

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