Two would-be Chinese pirates yesterday were languishing in the guard-house of a Japanese naval detachment at Woosung after having been turned over, bound hand and foot, by their intended victims, the "Tàiriku Shimpo" reported yesterday evening, The unsuccessful buccaneers, the Japanese daily said, met a tartar in Chin Yun-tung, 50-year-old laodah of the junk Sanhohsing under charter to the Kiangnan Industrial Company of Tiendong and Woosung Roads, Hongkew, Their downfall was attributed by the daily to an unsuccessful boarding of the stink ón the Whangpoo below Kagchao in Pootung. Firing pistols, the two raiders boarded the junk from à sampan, crew of the junk, armed With various implements of their calling, "counter attacked" under the leadership of the laodah. Before long the two "bad men" were lid ouf on the deck of the junk, tightly bound.
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