The "Shun Pao" of Wednesday's date has an interesting story of two piracies committed in the vicinity of Woosung during the past few weeks. It states that about a month ago, the junk Wong-tung-auh, the property of the Kong Vu Transportation Ca., when carrying a cargo of salted food from Tsingtao to Shanghai, was plundered by a big gang of pirates when near Dongsaw, outside Woosung. Money and cargo to the value of $4,000 were carried away, and six members of the junk's crew, who were badly injured in the affray, are still in the Woosung Hospital.
Another junk, the Zung-tuh-auh, the property of the same company, bound with a cargo of native cloth from Shanghai to Fukien, was plundered by pirates at the same place a week ago. The pirates, who arrived in two boats, wore red turbans and were armed with knives and iron clubs. There were more than 20 sailors on the junk, and these put up a stubborn resistance, but were finally overpowered, two of them being badly injured. The junk was ransacked, and the pirates carried away $800 in silver and $8,000 worth of cloth. Before leaving the junk, the the marauders smashed the rudder, and the boat was eventually' towed into Ningpo by a Japanese steamer. The two injured sailors are now in the Ningpo Hospital. One of the other members of the crew arrived here from Ningpo on Tuesday in the str. Ningshao and at once reported the matter to the owners. In the meantime the junk itself has arrived here for repairs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.