A. pirate, Chen 'Tweng-hsueh, has been sentenced by the Second Special District Court" to six years' imprisonment in connection with the daring attempt, staged on December 1, 1939, in San Ho Kong on the northern bank of the Yangtze in Kiangsu where the Butterfteld & Swire steamer s, Wuhu was attacked by about 40 pirates with whom Russian guards and officers aboard the ship were engaged in a fierce gun battle in pitch darkness, resulting in several casualties, It is also alleged that Koo har falled to give $30,000 to the late lawyer in connection with another case which Koo referred to the unfortunate lawyer, The lawyer was not satisfied with the non-payment and, it is alleged, began to tell the story to friends saying that Koo had failed to pay the money which ought to have been given him. To save his "face" Koo is alleged to have ordered his hirelings to get rid of the lawyer who once defended him, He is alleged (0 have promised $2,000 for the work but actually the murderers did not obtain that much.
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