Mr. Berents, whose suspicions were: aroused by the manceuvres of the boats, ran to the beach armed with a knife and a club. Despite the fact that he was hopelessly outnumbered, he forced back six pirates and kept them at boy pending the arrival of the gun-boa: and patrolemen, who took the desperadoes into custody.
Three of the pirates jumped overboard and two of them are missing.
The master of one of the junks was shot an killed by the pirates when the gun-boat opened fire.
'The body of a pirate has been' washed up on the rocks, while another of the miscreants, who was dadly injured, is not expected to!
According to an authoritative ver.
jon of the fight received here this afternoon from Peitaiho, all of the pirates have been accounted for, 19 of them having been taken prisoner.
It now appears that some of the: fishermen who escaped in the attack notified the police of the piracy, upon which we policemen proceeded to the gunboat and informed the naval men who promptly set out
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