Tientsin, Feb. 24.
The Chinese ferry-boat Shun Ping. Jearrying 86 passengers to Tangku from Tieatsin, was pirated during the Journey by a band of thirty men, The pirates, who had boarded the vessel as passengers, suddenly dis closed themselves. They relieved the passengers of money, jewellery and other possessions which caught their. fancy.
The vessel was brought to stop in the vicinity of Ningho, where the irates boarded wailing junks and Gecamped with their loot. They al took three of the passengers with them as captives—Reuter, MORE GIFTS FOR BIRTHDAY; Nanking, Feb. 26.
Despite the fact that General] Chiang Kai-shek's birthday is over, aeroplane purchase funds continue to pour into the capital, the Intest being donation of $60,000 contributed by overseas Chinese in the United States. The sum has been turned over to the Aeroplane Fund Com-(tee by the Central—Overseas. Affairs Commission—Central News.
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