ccutlasses held in their teeth, but were Slready in the vessel as "passengers" farmed with Mauser pistols.
The Dollar, a familiar sight in th Shanghai harbour for years past, was 15 miles off Woosung on the afternoon Moy 31, bound from Changying with a cargo of rice, when the piracy took place. At 4 pin, on a given signal, nine of the Chinese passengers on board suddenly turned pirates, produced Mauser pistols and started overpower the Chinese captain, fered and Indian watchman, They Shot. the watchman, Ahmed Guft Moldin in the left hand and thigh and then ordered the captain to turn the vessel towards Asungming Island, Having approached near a certain point, the leader of the pirates blew 2 whistle, a signal which brought Some ten' junks to the side of the tender The tice cargo of 1,000 bags, valued at about $11 a bag. was loaded into the junks by. their crews, and taken away. The Dollar was off the island until 1.30 o'clock yesterday morning, when the pirates nally abandoned her. During the piracy and subsequent looting of the cargo. the crew ind the terrified Chinese passengers were-Kept under strict guard by the gong. The Indian watchman, whose wounds were not attended, likewise was kept under guard minus his pistol which the pirates had taken from him,
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