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EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1932.
HARROWING TALE TOLD
OF PIRACY
(Continued from Page 1).
There the pirates were met by a The man who jumped overboard Junk, to which the loot was trans- was known as Wu Wai-po
COMMODORE BACK FROM NORTH.
Visited Peiping With Mrs. Walker.
very
Commodore A. H. Walker and to the Mrs. Walker returned Colony this morning from a vaca- tion in the North on board the s... ferred. Five hostages were also! Admiralty Warned.
At 2.27 a.m. to-day, the Hong The Commodore told the "Chine
Empress of Japan.. taken off to be held for ransom" and the Captain Had to accompany the Kong Naval Wireless station pick- !party ashore. He returned later, ed up a message calling the Com- Mail" that it had been a however, his abduction being a ruse modore, China Station, rapped out pleasant trip. They had spent one to delay the ship.
by the operator aboard the Peiping. I think that Pelping is week in Japan and three weeks in
have ever seen," he said. the most wonderful place that I "It is very beautiful and we enjoyed every minute of our stay.".
The pirates landed at 2 a.m. and Helikon, the Hellkon proceeded to Hong Kong About an hour later. *
11
This
"Piracy S.S. Helikon at Hie Che Chin Bay. Ship proceeding to Interviewed by the China Mail Hong Kong. All well" shortly after her arrival Miss Edith, meagre bit of information sets at one of the lady passengers, said rest any fear that harm may have! that she and the other lady were bei allen any of the ship's officers, awakened by the sound of shots and or, for that matter, any of the dog barking. About two hours Chinese aboard, in spite of the fact
afterwards, at 7.30 a.m., the captain that five are captives. came and informed them that the ship was in the hands of pirates..
Played Gramophone.
"I was terribly scared at first" | said Miss Boynton,."out the pirates treated us with every consideration. They played our gramophone but returned it to us when they left, and did not take any of our money, or
Jewellery."
Miss Boynton, who has been in Peiping during recent years as 2 Librarian, was formerly a mission- ary, and was returning home to New York, after 14 years service in
China.
"It is rather odd that I should
meet with pirates on my last day in,
China," she smiled.
Mr. I. Chalmers, Chief Officer of the Helikon, said that the raid came without any warning..
seized me.
The wireless station picked up the additional information towards noon to-day.
A New Stronghold.
The former Commodore of Hong Kong's Naval Dockyard and his wife will reside at Government House until next Thursday, at which time they will sail for Eng- land by way of Manila and Java.i
THE PRINCESS IN HAMBURG.
(Continued from. Page 1.)
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Hie Che Chin Bay, according to seafaring men here, is the new headquarters and operating base Prince George took leave of his of the pirates of the vicinity, brother and continued his fight driven from their former shelter-in an Imperial Airways liner to in place in Blas Bay by the born-Croydon.
The Prince of Wales, drove to bardment of British gunboats and
the watchful eye of the China the British Legation at Hague Fleet. From this new hiding place with the British Minister, Sir Odo Russell. His short visit to they are apparently contemplating
campaign against coast shipping.Holand is of a private nature, Just how fat their daring will take and he leaves for England by not boat to-night. British "Wire-
less Service.
them, authorities here are prepared to forecast..
The Helikon was expected here! early this afternoon.
She left Hong Kong for Saigon on October 11.
Looted' In 1930.
Mysterious Report.
The belief that there were pirates
that the
Helikon's wireless had
"I had come off watch at 4 a.m.
The first piracy in which the aboard the Helikon on August 21, last year, caused H.M.S. Stormcloud that morning and was just off to s.s. Helikon was involved occur- sleep when the pirates burst in and red on July 21, 1930, when the to be rushed to her assistance. ▲ I had no alternative vessel was one day out of Hongmysterious feature of the affair was but to join the captain and radio Kong on her journey to Saigon either been put out of order or broke officer, who were the first seized and On that occasion she was carry down. locked up."
ing 600 native passengers and The Helikon left Hong Kong at "They treated us with considera- one European saloon passenger. 8.30 am. on August 21, and was tion, but they were very careful to She also had on board about 500 brought back to port at 5.30 a. see we did not try to elude them. tons of general cargo, four cases the next day. Police boarded the Although they had a knowledge of of silk and 65 chests of tea, the vessel, which was later berthed at the sea in a general sense, they did latter two items being part of the No. 2 where investigations were not appear to be regular seamen. the pirates booty.
proceeded with.
ki
as H.MS.
In fact several of them were sea- The ship was seized at about On that occasion, a report was sick, one while on duty on the 2.15 a.m. on July 21, and the current that three packets were Bridge. He had to be replaced by pirates had control all day. The thrown over the side another guard.
Captain was forced to turn the Stormcloud drew alongside the ship. Gallant Compradore, % vessel and proceed past Hong It was stated then that a woman The Chief Officer spoke in glow Kong to Bias Bay, arriving there who was on board the Hellkon be- ing terms of the bravery of the at 12.15 am the next day: fore she sailed told the Compradore Compradore,
Mr. Fung Wai-There the pirates commandeered that she had seen the butt-end of a cheung When he first noticed the two of the ship's boats and went rifle sticking out of a man's pocket. pirates approaching, Mr. Fung col- ashore after kidnapping four- The man was presumably a passeng lected the money from, the safe teen of the passengers, including er on the vessel, She refused to and ran into hiding, where he the Compradore, Lo Pou, whom sail and left the ship. She was stayed all the day without the they held for ransom. The ship never traced,
pirates finding him. He was cap was released and left Bias Bay When the Stormcloud reached the tured at nightfall and locked in a at 3.50 am, arriving in Hong Helikon, she was about 140 miles cabin, but he escaped through the Kong at 8.30 a.m...
from Hong Kong, carrying about porthole on to the deck, only to be
Strange Courtesy."
300 Chinese passengers. caught again.
Throughout the attack the
Bulit la Colony.
Hi
It was stated by the Chief Officer freebooters acted courteously,! The s.s. Helikon was built by the that when the Chinese deck 'pas-but each one of the passengers Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. senger jumped overboard, the was systematically searched, not Ltd., in 1917, and is a steel screw pirates refused to turn the ship once, but three times, and in steamer, registered in Hong Kong. around to pick him up.
some cases even four. They were She is equipped with wireless, her "The skipper on the ship is Cap-robbed of all they possessed. tonnage being 2,232 gross and 1,885 tain G. LeFevre, and Mr. 1. When the pirates went ashore net.
י.
Chalmers, Chief Officer. The they also took Mr. J..S. Kirk- She is 270.6 feet long, 40.1 beam second officer is a Chinese, named patrick, the Chief Officer, but and 19.4 deep.
Mr. Li. The engine room staff is, he was allowed to return to the She is under the command"" . of W. Anderson, Chief Engineer; G. Helikon with the boats about Capt. W. Anderson, the Chief Officer MacCallum, Second Engineer, and half an hour later.
la Mr. J. S. Fitzpatrick, and she
The
Mr. Hon, third engineer.
The European saloon passen-earries a Chinese second mate. Mr. name of the radio operator is Mr.ger was Mr. Stewart Smith, well- W. Anderson is Chief Engineer with Chan Ying-aik..
known in Hong Kong.
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