s, Tseangtah, Captain Shanghai, July 7.
C. Blown in command and the]? perty of the China Import and Export Lumber Ca., was tearted by pirates and plundered off the small river port of Hsin Hsin 'Kong late Tuesday afternoon, July 5, it was discovered when {The ship came into port early yesterday morning with three woyinded male Chinese and 'a' baby which apparently had been grazed by bullet on board.
'A curious feature of the piracy was the almost friendly, attitude of the pirates towards the captain, crew and Sassengers after the first initial excitement had died down, This Pached its climax when Captain Blown complained of the loss of a watch and chain valued at $250. pirate chief, © whom Captain pitts, ne his complain Jef ige_ immediately.
2 returned wards, he a handed the cat that he. could the watch and chain, 'Teeangtal ts muster the. magnificent gum Mode not. tong afterwards however, alter" several' watches. had oweygught forward, Captain Blown veer red one of them. aa his ovnthe. pirate chief grandiloquently handed It, over and politely took the! $100 back again.
The Tseangtah left Shanghai at 1 clelock yesterday morning, bound for the usual small up-river" ports with about 80 to 90 Chinese passengers on fond; she carried little cargo—a nere eight oF ten cases of cigarettes for like most of the river craft now plying the Yangtze, the "pay-cargo" {brought from the ports to Shanghai About 615 pam, she was preparing to leave Hsin Hsin Kong when, two junks came alongside, and a large ady of pirates, numbering from forty Blown he would write to him soot Jand lett with every manifestation good-will—except that he warned everyone that a5 soon as he was ready to shove off, he would fre.a shot. Captain Blown was to take that) Jas a signal that he was not to raise anchor for another ten minutes.
'This gave the pirates a head-start, while the fact that they immediately' made for shallow water, disappearing rapidly inthe darkness, made it im: possible for Captain Blown to attempt! to run them-down, as he was strongly' tempted to do,
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