Tsingtao, Jan. 3.
'Twenty-two Chinese pirates stealing coal rom the naval whart here were captured to-day by foreign Wolunteers, The volunteers' approach-the wharf from. the sea in Tsingtao, Jan. 6.
The life of w small Chinese girl was Jeaved at dusk yesterday by a British naval rating who jumped into the ley waters of Tsingtso Bay to rescue her.
"The gid, a refugee being evacuated by the International Relief Society, had fallen overboard from Messrs. Buttereld & Swire's s. Shuntien.
Without hesitation, the rating, who was on guard duly aboard the Shuntien, Jumped tu his full uniform after he "The man, who belongs to H.MS. Dorsetshire, was nearly drowned, but managed to keep the girl and himself ffloat until help arrived. They were both taken aboard the s. Shuntien Jend given first ald. Both have suffer-fil effects from their immersion.
Jan, The British naval rating "who reseed a small Chinese girl from the ley waters of Tsingtao Bay yesterday is Able Seaman A. Maxwell, a native of Glasgow. He belongs to the British cruiser Dorselshire—Reuter. junks, while the freeboclers were busy loading their own craft with In a running battle, the majority of the thieves escaped rose in their junks but 22 of them were cut off by the volunteers and captured. Police junks have now been station-trance. to the harbour inst further depreda-
"The elly's Chinese volunteer mjplstrators are now laying plans to Wrni the exception of the bombing and burning of a few public offices, the extent. of the destruction in Huchow, North Chekiang. as a result lof the current Sino-Japanese hostili-tes is not very great, according to a fYeport to the "Social Morning Post" which states that local inhabitants, Who evacuated the district some time Seo. have now returned - to their homes and that many shops "have reopened for, business.
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