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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1957. T
FAMOUS CHINA COAST PIRACIES: ANOTHER INSTALMENT IN THIS FASCINATING CHINA MAIL SERIES
The Pirates Found Me
PURSER. CARNEIRE
of
the
Shuntien opened the door of his cabin.
At a given signal, 30 pirates who had boarded Shunilen as deck passengers, ruce silently between sleeping forms, from stole quietly over 10 i slack of C5309, took out revolvers and riser. moved to rehearsed It should have been positions and ut 10.30 p.m. struck, overpowering the guard, Chefoo, but at 8.15 a.m. rushing the bridge, seizing the
man who had slept wireless
TOOM and then the soundly could hardly be Captain.
a
expected to distinguish That was when young Ross between the Shantung was shot,
ladder in the Captain's help. He
He rushed down the
by Robin Hutcheon
Three women locked in The cabla defied the pirates
until loot
tho in search pirates werO sifting
taking what they eruizer. und they heard volco
D
outside wanted, wearing what they dismated, screaming "Open the door or could and throwing the rest to they'll kill me." They unlocked one side. and the pirates rushed in to plunder,
On the bridge, the pirate at the heliu brought Shuntien to the An American passenger, Mrs mouth of the Yellow River and on roit sand, const where the Shuntien was shot twice, once through Bee Hryall Learmouth sald bruched her
"Some ugly looking Five junks hove to alongside. stopped for the pilot, the shoulder and again through later:
And as he reeled rumans brandishing guns came pirate into my cabin and asked for my railings a and the mouth of the oven
bock of his head purse." "Have some Yellow River.
an
The first man the purser saw wore Army uniform. In his belt stuck u pistol.
A Receipt
Mr Camcire walked over and pleasantly acked him to hand in his gun for safekeeping, as the company's regulations required, Nonchalantly he continued: "I give you a receipt for it and you can collect it before
sembarking".
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES could
"ANTENUR❞
Damaged cargo ex thin vertel wil ha rurveyed by Messrs Goddard & Douglas at Bolt'n Wharf from
on August 24 and 25, 1957, and con- signées are requested to have thele representatives present thuring the survey,
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The
assurance was ignored. Suddenly Mr Carnèlre teli what only have been the burrels of two revolvers screw- ing into his ribs.
He was pushed through a Blower passage which led to
leck smoke roots, Inside Captain Christiansen
and his
affleurs sat,
the
eluuled the
int
HMS EAGLE
candy,"
Dinner Jackets
In went the booty, 20 Chinese and Ave European hostages including Mr Grihumo Niclioli, Shanghai
the of manager ManufacturTS' Life Insurance Company, two young Naval submarine lieutenants, and two ship's
officers, G. L. Brand of Aberdeen and II. MeD Watson
of Banff,
customs ho was
of that Happily
And Shuntien was left lying on the mud. As the lite rose, Wireless intact, she cared off, navigation intact, engines Cargo untouched unharmed, still in the lids.
Overdue Shuntien was by now the object of a wide sca search. BMS Wich found her
Asleep
wide della and then with the permission
of the authorities flew Inland 15 Shuntien with her seriously In- jured third mate Rosa on board, steamed back to Chefoo under cscort of Witch,
A Tribute
Soon after a sampon put of Chinese from one of them flying a white flug. In it wero Nicholl atul Shen Tlen-lint. The other junks. at the planes. peppered away Then the planes spotted trying to make
There
onc
off into tho shons beyond the reach of the destroyers, lying off the river mouth waiting to pick up the hostages.
The full Bet of hostages now came to light, Mr Shen Tien-
A warning bomb was dropped Jin, former Minister of the and with a message saying hostages of Interior in Nanking was among "Give up th
end soon after the those talten. Lieutenants P. L. else....' Field and J, D. Luce, RN sub- four offers were released.
mrine officers, made up the
Newspaper recounts conflict most important, six
at thin point. One said a parly of pirates whe Even with group Europeans fleeing nerosa country. Tho other suggests that the offteers were released from the junk after the warning bomb was dropped. But six were recovered anyway.
HMS WITCH
London
named
Japanese Yamamoto
newspapers
огом
I was not able to discover the fate of the 19 Chinese and the pirates,
And tho
Rose, after about four days The pirates who pushed them and I remember looking down were 19 Chinese passengers also lingering between life and death le she said offering them a un, revulver butt,' A
on the destroyer as she lay being held and a
suddenly recovered. and down a rope ladder had dis- with slumped to the deck and was but they found her purse
until afx-and-a-half took it instead,,
carded their rags and donned alongside. Even the top of her passenger the pick of the not found
passengers toll funnet was below the pas carried back a ransom note Shuntien piracy quietly slipped, hours later.
clothes. Mr Handley-Derry, who had
wore dinner enger deck HMS Eagle's search given him by the pirates before out of the newspaper columns. A tow That was about the time I just had an eye removed in
jackets, one a white mess jackel, planes circled overhead. Mean they lett.
while Veternri, another destroyer. There was a rumpus big operation in Peking, lost woke up.
It is pertinent here to tell from nearby Weihalwel-searched the corridors: A woman's the six false eyes he was taking
why Shuntien was pirated. The back to Tangku and USS Pope, splashing the story and very scream, Hammering on doors, back to Shanghai.
destroyer told
and USS Bittern, ship's compradore was Feet padding down the corridors.
the Daily in Much was taken but one was retallation for the Chinese tender, crossed back and forth heated editorials, including one
Mall, The hammering come closer. A
Eventually, the Mariumo Clems decision to over its tracks until the news strange woman was in our cabin was molested
Chinese authorities against the patrol the Shantung coast with came through that Shuntien had demanding stem action by the She was negi- passengers were herded into a praying.
class saloon and an extra cruiser, It had been found.
pirates. bour, Mrs Springer, a Protestant second missionary,
BOMC, Including myself, taken seriously hampered smuggling
Then began the search for the down to an after hatch where activities.
hostages. Shantung Governor This was the fifty first pirney we were given hot coffee and
troops on the China coast. since 1921. ham sandwiches, mado by the And there was one pirate who Han Fu-chu detailed
British was reluctant to leave Shunjien to hunt down the Junks which Twenty pirates,
And been
killed and upriver. with his mates, his loot and the had escoped
condition was critical. followed up. He was going to sall Eagle's planes Above, the decks were littered hostages.
over th with opened bagg and clothing. Shuntien all over the China Sea They swooped low
On Our Door
Purser Carneire hud stept Now hammering on our door. The mother opened it. through a piracy which begin My
He saw the nine and a hair hours carlier, pirate came in.
He paused, woman. And 25-year-old Third Oficer, praying
himself, and then J. P. Ko had been critically crossed
wounded by one of the same demanded the opening of all revolvers which had forced him cases.
to the smoke room.
Rehearsed
In fairness to Mir
Men came in and rined through them, taking linen and clothing. The light was on. I saw my mother struggling to get her engagement ring off, It wouldn't The pirate chief who Carneira come off.
told her had crossed himself he'd remove her finger below
he was not the only sound sleeper,
1 had slept right the second knuckle if it would
through it too.
help. My mother, put her hand under the cold water top and
of the
South
This is what had happened. Shuntien, 1,900-ton_passenger conster built in Hongkong's tugged it off. Taikoo Dockyard for Butterfield The old files and Swire, was
on only her China Morning Post i sald second voyage from Tangku to the pirates even took "rinkets" Chetoo. That was on Sunday from my brother, Ian, and me- June 17, 1934.
but I don't remember it
China Mail Entertainment Guide
What's On Tonight
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Magnificent Rough- nocka": oil drilling in South America with "dynamite and dames". Jack Carson and Mickey Rooney, Nancy Gates und Jeff Donnell, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Animal Farm". A car-
toon version of George Orwell's famous satire. STAR and METROPOLĖ: "Foreign Intriguo". Cloak and dagger thriller starring Robert Mitchum and Genevieve Page. "In colour. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Phantom of the Ru Morgue": Edgar Allen Poe's shocker. Kart Matden, Claude-Dauphin, Patricia Medina and Steve Forrest.
ROXY and BROADWAY: "Orlando". An Italian film, with a medineval setting in English. Rick Battaglia, Rosanna Schiaffino,
Iran Approves Of Malaya
Taheran, Aug. 21. He said that Iran would sup- Nasrollah Entezum, the new port Chorles Malik, Lebanon's head of the Iranian delegation representative, as candidate for to the United Nations General | President of tho General Assembly, ad file country was Assembly Franco-Prest. in favour of Malaya's adientzaion
to the United Nations when sho gaine her independance, but wan opposed to the `wdmission of Communist China.
Entesam medo this statement before leaving Teheren today for Europe, thep06:50 Love Work before the end of the mouth.
The picture above shows what the Shuntien looked like. It is its sister ship, the Shenking, The picture was supplied to the China Mall by Messrs Gev, Grimble & Co. Ltd, Hongkong.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 By All USA., O May, India, Ceylon, 4 p.m. By Surface
Laco
D. AUNUST 23
by Alk Kores, & a.. Thailand, Burma, žodia, & a.m. Cambodia, M.13. Gemany, 10 km.
Formosa, Japan, Okinawa, 11 am. Guan, itawall, U.8.A., p.m. Pippine, Australia, New Zea land, 4 pm.
Thailand, India, Paklatgu, Middle Fast, Africa, Great Britain & Europe, & ..
Formbea, 6 p.m.
1.5. Canada, 0.5.at.
By Eurface China, People's Repubilo, 7 *-10%. Indonesia, it «m. North Borneo, 11 ..
20ared: 11 a Mecno, 1 D... Spailpod., p.
SATURDAY, AUGUST AL By Air Peking. Shaghai, itankow, Kun- ming, Löwhow. ↑ Mimą
Indo-Chins, Franos, 30 n.m, Zhalland, Mallya, North Borneo, Incona, Ceylon, 11 a
"Philippines," 3. p.m.
Denver, Aust. 21.
wod, India Middle East, Virgit Wilson, 35, of St Loads, Africa, Great Deliain, Europa, a pin
Dwall, U.S.Au à p.m. Miaouri, wen arrested yesterday
Fornom, Japan, Ohiowwa, o p after stealing US$18.40 km colum Indo-Chine,MA KYEN
Andopanta from the Denver Socres Bervice | Australia, New Zealand, a p.m.ge once, Tho-coina_ween counter, 17 China, „Propter impulilo, Vaata, folt.--Uniteă. Prona, "
Akin? Ada, Kopi, Netherland,
Germany, Parcels direct, 1a.m.
P. East Mauritus, Mauen. Africa, S. Atrien,, Brazil, Argentine, IN. B, Rhodesia, Nyasaland) Parcela via Marqued), 11 5.m.
Italy, France, 11 am. Macno. 1 p.m.
Philippines 2 pm.
Autralia, New Zealand, 4 p.m. China, People's Republic, & p.m. Klacao, 6 p.m.
BUNDAY, AUGUST
23
By" Surface Macso, 1 p.m.
MONDAY, AUGUST 20
By Surfac China, Poopio's Itepilte, a.m. Japan, 9.3.A., C. &.8. America, 10th, 11 a...
Indonesia, it a.. Масло, 1 р. Maeso, é p.m.
Handbag Taken From Car
Therts from parked velueles jacket yesterday included containing ensh from a truck In Kowloon City Roud and a handbag containing $343, The handbag was taken from the sent of a car which a Chinese women was parking in Stanley Street.
BALLET MUSIC
1 Conaldersblo Raterent, bas
Carol in Is boon aroused Baterman's ethcoming produc ton of the Rossini-Respighi ballet, La Boutique Tanisaque, and Charlen. Horyty La pro
9.10 senting tonight, at
over Iodiffusion, a special edition of Muda Tizna based on the bullet
were
offlers had Ross's
My mother, brother and I went off to Tsingtao for We read zummer holidays. later of the amazing sequel and Captain Christiansen's tribute
to the women passengers.
+
Firing Run
The day
Shunlien Engle's group
after arrived in Chefoo, spoiler planes sighted a
of junka 10 miles west of tho mouth of the river. They shadowed them until, towards cvening, a junk opentd Are..
The planer swooped doen and made a firing run CVET them,
Today's Competition Picture
Today's picture, entered in the recent China Mall photographic competition, is entitled “Jump Into the water and was submitted by Tosškr Lee, 49 Cheting Sha Wan Road, Kowlebt,
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