How the men who pirated the s. Tungchow that carried more than seventy children who were pupils of the China Inland Mission Schools at Chefoo escaped after they had landed from the looted ship in Honghai Bay 4s contained in despatches received in Chinese circles last Wednesday. One of the men has already been arrested.
of the escape has been made known, and through his story the whole tale to the accounts received, were not as well informed of the roads in the district in which they landed as was formerly believed, About 2 am. in the night of the Iand-ing from the Tungchow, the villagers of Koo Liao, in Walyang hsien, in the neighbourhood, "were rudely disturbed by armed' men who broke open houses at the point of their pistols. The intruders demanded to told the best routes to the vicinity of Hongkong. Cowed by their arms, the villagers told them.
Two of the villagers, named Chang and Tong, thereupon were told that certain parts of the loot Rad been left on the foreshore, and were ordered to go down and fetch them. This they did, finding five bundles of banknotes, and two antiquated guns. By the time they had returned to the village with these articles, however, the marauders had departed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.