Eighteen persons, seventeen of whom were pirates, were killed, twenty-six kidnapped persons were released, and eleven other pirates are now in the custody of the Shanghai Public Safety Bureau, as a result of sharp engagement between the customs preventive cruiser Lien Hsing and a pirate junk outside Woosuny fon Dee. 17, it was learned las, Wed nesday.
The Customs cruiser was patrolling, the neighbourhood of Sha Wei Shan Island about noon when the officers on board sighted two suspicious-looking northern junks a little to the northwest of the island.
The arrested marauders and re-eased persons were later handed over to the River Police who in turn turned them over to the Public Safety Bureau on Tuesday, The junk was "not brought to Shanghai as it caught fire and was destroyed as a result of the engagement,
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