Hangchow, Sept. 27.
Thirty-five school children and teachers of a primary school in the small village of Peihsiangehen, west Loching, along the southwest coast of Chekiang, to-day were carried away for ransom by a group of band= lis believed to be under the notorious outlaw chieftain, Ying" Pao-shou, whose activities in the vicinity have struck terror Into hundreds of villagers in these parts.
The pirates descended upon the village at a most unexpected time fand besides some money and value ables, carried away practically all the village school inmates, An, alarm was soon raised by the frantic parents of the kidnapped children, and local police promptly arrived on the scene and gave a hot chase, In a resultant encounter between the police and the pirates, three of the pirates were killed and one arrested. 'The police Anally succeeded rescuing three of the kidnapped children. Another' was accidentally killed during the encounter. The rest of the pirates made good their escape with their victims—Central News,
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