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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1957.
FAMOUS CHINA COAST PIRACIES: ANOTHER INSTALMENT IN THIS FASCINATING CHINA MAIL SERIES
SUNK
BY
A SUBMARINE
ARELY
Rpiracy
The Irene, captured by Pirates, tried to slip into Bias Bay under the cover of darkness but suddenly there was a blinding flash
was a the command of Cuplalu John Henry Jahnsen, u Norwegian the who had been plying the Ching China coast a coast for the previous 10
on
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House. Telephone 30000,
years. The shig left Shanghai on the morning of October 17,
1927, and was sailing for Amay in the south with 258 passen-
gers and general cargo,
VICTIMS
For two days the ship plough- the ed through the sea without mishap or Incident. The wen-
and in the other, the fantastic high with a few hostages. Availablo ats & Co To Alex- Almost every ship which sailed into port after an encounter with pirates brought with it a tragedy that was dif- ferent from any other.
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rushed to the burning ship to judge awarded judgment to the help.
Naval Oficer who claimed With other ships standing by, that he had fired on the Irene the LA steamed for port, arrive at the express order of hia ing in Hongkong about 3 am en superior officer.
October 21. She carried on
F
GAOL BREAK
board all the passengers sho had rescued including three men They entered the saloon, their take them os hostages for ran- His decision In defiance of who were later identified as revolvers binzing. They said som
the pirates' threat, was too late, pitales. "The pirates Later they were only trying to
declared that Thero was a flash from the sub- In the meantime, having been
Thory is a posteript to this gun and a. shell bit holed and almost completely piracy, almost es sensational as frighten the officers and dis- they, were not eatisfled with the marine's courage opposition but one booty and wanted to kidnap the Irene, plercing her dide on gutted by fire, the Ireno sank, the story of the piracy itself.
Mr Che Ting-chow, the waterline. The shell landed bullet hit a Chinese steward in someone,"
The shelling of the Irene by the chest, The man died later a first class
I was told recently by passenger, related. In the engine room and disabled the British submarine had senior Hongkong Government "I was one of the unlucky ones; the ship, smashing the engine political repercussions, Two oficial who retired and left for go with two others I was con
and putting it out of action. Oned to a cabin."
months after the incident, Dr England. C. C. Wu, the Minister of After the sun had set, the
shot-miraculously it Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Before the irena
pirates ( pirates ordered lights out,
seemed-saved the life of the Government, handed a note to went to the gallows they tried the hope of slipping into Chief Engineer, Mr A, Hodge. Bir Miles Lampson, the Briush to break out of Victoria Gaol by Bay undetected.
It Idited the pirate who was Ambassador, protesting against overpowering a European prison But just when their daring covering him with a gun and the thelling of the merchant officer who went into the con- plot looked like succeeding the threatening bim with death if
demned cell with Royal Navy intervened!
he dared to stop the engine. in
them, The Irene had passed Bate fact the Chiet Engineer felt Island at the northeastern horn that the pirate
the of Bias Bay and at about 8
trigger verge of pulling the o'clock she was making for on- other island at the head of the ment and confusion created by anyway because of the excile. Bay.
the shalling.
20 pirates A gang of about was now in full control. They searched the officers' quarters and seized more armg and In fact, ammunition,
typhoon season was over.
Captain Jahnsen kne all
the
pirates.
One of the most horrifying about was the sinking of the Irene some of his friends were vic- BONETIN C KXCLUSIVE, Collee by a British submarine in Blas tims of earlier piracies. But Bay in 1827 wiren the ship, he had been lucky; and why manned by pirates, refused LU siop and identily herself
shouldn't his luck hold? dc- spite three warnings.
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Irene had on board at the time more than 250 passengers. Utter confusion reigned as they scrambled around the decks to escape the flames caused by the shalling,
RESCUED
SLOW DOWN
He had occasion to scrutinise The pirales ordered Captain his deck passengers before Jahngen at gunpoint to go to the ship salted,
but he could the bridge and directed him to not detect anything unusual. herd for Hongkong.
le remembered thinking
Famous last thoughts!
that
at
SIGNAL FLASH
The
in
Blas
no one resembled a cut-throat, p1⁄2 knots at the time, but the
The Irene was travelling anyway.
pirates calculated that at this rate she would arrive in Bias Bay before sunset, They decided His Majesty's Submarine LA, to enter the bay in darkness to which had been on exercise no: escape detection by patrolling long ago, was lying at anchor So they ordered the near the entrance to the pirates' skipper to slow down.
duunt. Her commander,
Lt. Masters of the situation, they Commander FJ.C. Halahan, who
saloon The commandeered the
da vas on deck, suddenly saw headquarters of operations and dark shape moving on the sur
vessels.
was on
man.
FLAGRANT
svater
for
Mon in the condemned cell in those days were handcuffed and chained to the heavy bed boards. The note alleged that the All the Irene pirates were la acilon consiliuted
a flagrant the one cell. disregard of international law One day, one of them called That shot started a fro that and humanitarian considerations for water. The regular warder Another almost completely gutted the because of the many passengers was away having tea. chip.
al- on board. The note argued that warder got tho water and the Irene was not a pirate ship, though unescorted, as regulations Dawn come оп October 19,
As the fire spread and Intensi- put a pirated ship, and as she demanded he should be, he the third day of the journey
fed, sailors on board the LA herself was a victim, she should took it to the cell and left it by south. It was a pleasant morn-
sow people jumping into the noi have been destroyed,
the door. rea to escape ing and gave promise of another
the burning in-
The prisoners called out Those who could swim jump- good day's sailing.
femo.
Seven people wero subse- "We can't reach it," ed overboard with Hiebells; The Chlef Ofeer, Mr George day following Chinese Mid-others slipped down the listing Innes, was
quently Identifed, as pirates. The warder pleked it up and It Halahan ordered his sub- on duty on
put it within reach. He WAS Autumn Festival Day).
marine to go as near as possible akip's sides or squeezed out of bridge
They faced committal pro- grabbed by the prisoners. They at that time.
Capt
le Irene. ordered the officers to their face of the water few hundred portholes.
The LA went along coedings before the magistrate, took the keys of their handcuffs Hong Kong, 5th Sept, 1957.
Jahatan, the Second Officer Mr cabins for their meals. They yards away. Halahan at once side und her crew rescued many Mr R. E. Lindsell, at Central and his revolver and then One injured
the were A. Zaiónschkovsky and
not inconsiderate to thought of pirates and ordered who were struggling in the Police Court later the same silenced the warder. "I lay on the deck until the Second Engineer Mr Harold the officers however, and the few bis signalman to flash
out water. They dived repeatedly month, on a charge of piracy. submarine camo alongside. I. Halvick, were in the saloon hav- pirates who spoke
"Stop Immediately,"
into the water to pull out those They were committed to the crapt to the side of the ship ing breakfast. The Chief En- converted freely.
But the Irene ignored the who were in difficulty. The Supreme Court-in November and and Wes later rescued and sincer, Mr A. Hodge, was in the
order.
rescue operation lasted through- were sentenced to death. About 4 pm on Thursday, laken to the submarine."
engine room on duty.
The LA's searchlight lit up out the night. The submarine's October 20, the Irene was chal-
the ship a moment later.
crew rescued more than 220 out seven pirates was legally re- board in the hope of unlocking Incidentally, only one of the Then, they dashed to the key lenged by IMS Foxglove. The
Then the submarino fred a
of 250 passengers. warship elgnailed to ask the ship blank round in another attempt
presentei by Counsel. Mr Leo other cells and singing a mass to identity, itself. The pirates to stop her and to make her
D'Almada e Cosiro, Jar, who prison break, ordered the Chlof Officer nt
had been admitted to practica disclose her identlly. But Ireno gunpoint to holst Irene's num-
went on, taking no fiotice, ber and at the same time to dip The Irene her flag in sclute. was allowed to pass.
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BRIDGE RUSHED
Throughout, the submarine's starchlight was trained on the burning ship, illuminating acts of desperation and heroisin- like that of the
Chief Officer At about 8 o'clock, without who dashed in amongst the warning, the pirates atruck! frightened
handing They came from the well deska passengers out lifebelts while the mes where they were disguised as
flares were sweeping the ship's deck. Posiengers."
11
"English,
MOST POOR
UNACCOUNTED
MOST EXCITING
mis- but
Now ollier warders rushed on on October 24, was briefed by to the seeno, An Indian was shot his father to represent Due of down as he tried to grab one of The gunners on board the LA
Another naval craft pieleed the charged named Hung Kwan. the pirates and another fred again-this time a live up a dozen or so later, Twenty. It was Mr D'Almada's first caso European whose revolver round was got Across Irene's four persons were unaccounted since his admission to practice fred was also wounded, bow. Still the pirated vessel for and were believed to have on his return from the United within half an hour the pirates took no heed of the warning. perished.
Kingdom.
had been overpowered, Captain Johnsen, the Wi- The L4, wille perfonning the There was another strange "They were never out of the willing
skipper of the ship, night-long rescue operation, was sequel to the treng piracy some main cell block. And even if As the ship was sailing at knew the caning of the last maintaining wireless communi- two years later. The owner of they had there would still have reduced speed, the pirates con shot. He knew that the L4 cation with the naval yards in the ship brought a civil action been the tinued their sub-
syetematic search had given fair warning and he Hongkong. The Naval Authori- against Lt.Cdr. Halahan, claim- clear, Their aim was to get passengers. They know that the next shot would ties sent HMS Magnolia, HMS Ing for $350,000 damage and as many guna as they could found that the majority of them be aimed at his ship. were poor. Not satlied with was at point-blank" rangel
And it Stormcloud and later the tug $1,000 a day for the loss of use and set the other prisoners
Alliance to the scene, their loot, they took
HMS of the ship. The action was free, it didn't como off but it three Chinese passengers, and locked
Capt Jahnsen telegraphed the Delhi, which was on exercise brought before the Supreme was one of the must oxelling them in a cabin, intending
room, signalling the nearby and had intercepted the Court in Hongkong, but after half hours I've ever known,” engintor to stop.
submarine's wireless message, many hearings the presiding the "Government official said.
the
of the
This encounter Was one of Several made A concerted the very few occasions when a rush for the bridge, aring Tên patrol ship came to grips with volvers hs they ran. The the pirates. The shelling in- Chie! Officer and the quarter. cldent drew sharp protests master were surprised by from the Chinese government sudden atlack and were
dued. The control of the bridge two months Inter.
A vessel belonging to the changed hands within minutes Chinese firm, The China Mer- of the initial attack, chunts Steam Navigation Co., the 1,343-ton Irene was under
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