SHANGHAI CRICKET

AVERAGES

Rev. E. K. Quick Goes To Top Of The Bowlers

Shanghai, July 11.

Following äre the Shanghai league cricket batting and bowl- ing averages, corrected to date. The most poticeable change in the week is the advance of the Rev. E, K. Quick to the top of the bowling list.

BATTING

DARS.

Not out

Runs

Ave.

SILK EXPORTS

Foy Kingdo

115 121.00 General Trading Co.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1934: .

SHIPS LOOTED WITH A

SMILE

Pirates Who Travel First-Class

(Special Air Mall, Service)

London, June 29.

If you are travelling by sea, from Singapore along the China const, beware of any too-affable Chinese first class passenger. "

He may be a perfectly peaceable 520merchant. On the other hand he may be the uncrowned king of a pirate gang.

That is the warning of Lleut. Comdr. T." T. Laurenson D.B.C.. ex-R.N. He probably knows' more aboat Chinésé pirates than any 236 man living.

RAW SILK

Baud, J. Canton Mercantile Co. Cheung Hing Tai

621.

29

Cheong On Tai

40

Chiha Overseas Inter Trad-

ing Co.

25

Ferguson & Co., John H.....

30

107

L. F. Stokes

5 2 363

R. Booth

€ 2 279 128

69.75 Grimth, Ltd., (1932), T. E....

665

R. D. Gullespie

0228 143

45.20 Hink Kee

6

B. Elliott 4

2 81 42

40.50 Hogg & Company

M. J. Divecha

1 119 64

39.66 How King

S., R. Kermani ö

Q 183 85

36.60 Kwan Shing ...

Rev. E. K.

..

Quick 4 1

91 37 3033

Kwong Tal Loong

H. Rogerson

凌 1 90 28

30.00

Lee Cheong

A. J. Barson រ

1 145 51

29.00

Lee Wo Cheung

O. G. Simpson 6

0 160 91

28.17 Lee Yue Eing...

R. W. Edwards € 0 166 88

27.66

Madler Ribet & Cle

H. P. Madar

F Kellner

5 3 50 23

25.00

D W. Lasch

S. F. Shroff

80 149 80 80 146 48

H. Meston * 4 35 36 35.00 Kwangtung "Silk Agency

N. W. Keyworth

1. Madar

C. J. Smith.

5 2 75 27

0 71 32 4: 0 92 -36 8 0 132, 38.

Sgt. Cartwright A 3 85 *28*

Kwong Miu Lun

2500 Mitsui Bussari Kaisha

Nam Sang

24.83 Nam Wah Silk Export Co. 24.34 Fing Shick & Co.

33.67 Po Lung Cheung

23.00 Reiss Massey & Co. Lid ... 22.00 Spalinger & Co., USA.

216 Sản Elas. Loang

18.80 Wo Hing Silk Corporation 18.60 Yee Wo

125

215

81

He has spent most of his life in the Chiria Seas.

For twelve years Commander Laurenson was branch secretary of the China Coast Officers' Galld in Hong Kong. Every case of piracy passed through his hands

*These pirates clean up tens of thousands of pounds a year," said

20 Commander Laurenson to me yes- 85terday (writes a correspondent),

814

"Ten thousand pounds from a 475 single ship is 1 common occur- rence. There are some thousands of these pirates the last in the world, and the best.

350

330 601

"They wear no cutlasses or 35 wooden legs The leaders often 20 are dressed ülke rich and cultured 895 Chinese gentlemen, and travel as 3 first-class passengers. The an- 225 derlings are indistinguishable from 825 | the, Chinese man-in-the-street.

overcome

90 **They perform fèredible fenta 220 by their surprise tactics. Again 187 ond again twenty or thirty of them 500 Wil

a ship with an armed crew and perhaps & thou- sand passengers, sall her into their 425 harbour and strip her of every-

44 thing of value,

-

.: K. Foot

4.3 21

19

21.00 Tack Woo Shing

EP. Humphreys 0.105

52

W. E. Gileve. 5. 2 82

23

J. C. Jenkins 3 0 61

46

21.00 Tung Fat Hing... 20.67 Yasunla & Co., J. P. 10.87 Wa, Lun Hing

Sgt. Sevenoaks 80 118 81

19.87 Wing Ching Chepng

Sgt. Möwatt

6 1

98 45

19.60 Wing Fat Lun

A. C. Sinclair 5 1

77 29

19.25 Wing Tal Loong

Sgt. Sellars

5. 0 84 42

T. H. Darvill-

6

193

42

I. F. Shtof $

2

52 35

17.33 Yu Sing

V. W.L. Stanion 3

52 · 40

17.33 Yuen Kee

C.E. Ollerdessen 60

103" 44

17.00 Sundries

J. M. Watson 3 0 51 26 FR. L. Carey 40 68 59

17.00

16:50

Total

W. H. Cochran 6

0 97 44

16.17

WASTE SILK

15.87

22

15.17 Baud....J., 14.20

Canton Mercantile Co. Cheung Hing Tai Deacon & Co., Ltd.

35

200

Ferguson & Co., John, E. General Trading Co.

110

'J. A. Isaacs 6 0 94 43. AV. Gash 6 0 91 44

0 71 Sigma. Lowe -5 A. J. Willis 4. 0 58 25 14.00

E. Ä. Pitts 8,0 84 29 14.00

"denotes not out.

BOWLING

O. M..R. W. Ave,

8.501

"Their intelligence service is wonderful. They know exactly who is in any given ship. They are even believed to have, their sples in the Chinese native banks. 60 They plan weeks ahead from in- 120 funtiation received.

Seldom Caught

"They will make voyage, after 20 voyage in a ship at their own ex- Grmth. Ltd.. (1932) T. E... 2,650 pense, mastering the routine, be-

471ore they pirate it. Hing Kee

Hogg & Company Kwangtung Silk Agency.... 58.4 12 146 23 8.35 Madler Ribet & Cle

Rev. E.K. Quick 34.2 8 8 16 6.20 R. Booth

N

D. W. Leach 106.4 36 231 24 9.62 Mitsul Bussan Kalsha.

4." C. Jenkins $1 V. W. L.

T.L

11 182 16 10.19 | Nam Sang

Nam Wah Silk Export Co." ... 13 157 15 10.47 Ping Shick & Co.

Po Lung Cheung

Stanton 50

Rawsthorne 65 19.148 14 10.57 H. Rogerson 58.1. 9 206 15 13.74

Lt. Col. Felly

·

T. A. Madar

V. Balley

G. B. Elliott

H. Meston

Reiss Massey & Co., Ltd. Societe Commerciale Asiati-

que

Shun Tai

28.2 4 154 11, 14.00 42.4 8, 182 11 14.73 70.3 4 258 17 15.18 Soakinver & Co.. U.S.A. 52" 11 156 10 15.60 Tien CheongTM

42

F. R. Kermani 56 .C. E.

Ollerdessen 58 "T, W. R. Wilson 27 JA. Isaacs ?1 Sgt. Cartwright 45

10 157 10 15.70{Tung Slng" Hong

8207 13 15.92 Wing Cheong.

Wing. Tal Loong

10 210 13 18.15 Wa Lung Hing

21 225 13 17.33

17 280 16 17:00

Wo Hink Silk Corporation. Yuen Hing

6 202 10.20.20 Sundries

E. H. Anetice 806 259 12 21.58

Total

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"Every one knows the harbours

-harbours into which they all 300 proud ships at the gun's point. And yet the pirates cannot be caught. I have been in close touch with the subject for twelve years, and I hardly remember a single pirate brought to justice.

"Yellow piracy is not declining It is rather tricreasing. I have had 154 long talks with China const cáp- 50tains about the pirates' extra- 1,250 | ordinarily successful methods.

200

12 *They seldom board a ship bý 1,530 force. They book passages Like ordinary passengers, and attack from within.

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Chinese gentleman in spotless white slik excused himself to the master, Captain Brewer, With whom he had been talking in perfect English. .......

"He walked along the deck to the tron grille between the first- class and the rest of the ship. He drew a revolver and said to the Indian guard: Open the grille or I will shoot you dead Hand me the gun and the key**

"The guard obeyed, and the Chinese fred a shot in the air. Captain Brewer and other passen- gera were still at dinner when the shot rang out. Another Chi- rese passenger whipped out a re-

volver and covered, the captain.

Other oficerą were covered by other pirates

Skipping Notes

Sanghat, July 12.”

The N.Y.K. fast Uner an. Naga- sati Maru sails from Wayside Wharf to-morrow' at 9 YLITY. Nagasak and Kobe.

Southern Ports

for

-The I-CAN, sa: Chipshing, salis from. Ningpo Wharf to-por- row at 4pm. She is commanded by Captain Hughes and is due direct to Foochow, Swatow," Hong Xong,' Canton, Pathot and „Hal- phong are the six ports of calls of the ON, "sa Yochow which falls from the French Bund to-morrow at 11 am

Hankow and Pome

The I-CBN as, Kutwo, com- manded by Captain A. Woodley, sails for Hankow and Intermediate ports at midnight to-night. She' is salling from Hunt's Wharf and carries passengers and cargo for Hankow and the usual inter- mediaté ports: Early to-morrow morning at 3 am the GN. "as Tatung leaves from the French Band. for up-river ports. She has passenger and freight accommoda- tför.

New China-Australian Liner

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{{!** ་ “Everything the passengers had. Was taken, and when the ship en-Reuters announce that the sa tered Bias Bay four, junks came Yanghua, an ocean liner of 8,000 Then the ahlp tans belonging to the Tachunghua up for the loot. was left to make its own way back Steamship, Company, which will to part.

be the arst Chinese liner, to run between this country, and Australia is expected to arrive in Shangbai early next month The ship has recently been purchased by the company from England and is now on her way from Sydney to Shang- 'hat, carrying a full cargo of rail- way sleepers and other goods.

"But as the pirates were leaving they pressed a scrap of paper to the exptain's Hand.” It

It was five dollar note. They thought he would be inconvenienced by lack of petty cash when he reached Hong Kong,

"No one knows exactly how the pirates get their arms. "Every one is searched before boarding, but it is believed that bales of merchan- dise and double-boltamed Peátár's baskets are used.

To-day Arrivals There are three thers coming info port to-day. The Glen Line m.v. Glenean should be alongside China Merchants Lower Wharf

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"The greatest of all stories of the China See pirates was the at-this afternoon. tuck on the ss. Halching in Decem- several passengers for Shanghai ber 1920. I had the real story from besides much cargo. The Holland the master, ny old friend Capt. East-Axia 8a Grotekerk is also O. HFhirar: -

expected in this afternoon atong- Central "The Halching was a moderate-side-China...... Merchants' size passenger and cargo bost and had left Swatow for Hong Kong ight hours previously. It was 1 a.m. & hot fatig out A passen ger had shot one of the ship's fh. dian guards.

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Pitched Battle "This was the signal for the pirates among the Bassengers to join the assault. The captain dashed up to the bridge in hia dressing-gown, arming himself d the way. He found pitched battle going on between two of three officers on the bridge and an invisible gang firing from be low,

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"The alarm signal was sounded on the ship's syren, 60cm after, the vessel stopped, and the lights went out. That meant the pirates had teached the engine room.

"The chief engineer staggered on to, the bridge bleeding from an

What · Arriving from similar parts is the NDL ss. Trave, which berths at the Shanghai and Hơng- kew Wharf at daylight

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The former will be used for hand- lng exports, while the latter as a store for imported, goods.

Jeanne D'Are To Be Scrapped

According to a Havaa report re-

11,300 tons French cruiser was ceived yesterday, the Jeanne D'Arc.

bought on July 8. for Frs, 1,000,000 and is to be scrapped. Launched in 1880, the vessel has been used

100 The life of an English mer-injury. followed by the third as a naval training ship. Later it

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is hell. He never knows when his wounded.

I riassengers are going to turn pirstin the captain and, his re-

ates. A shot in the middle of the night is the first sign.

"If the attempt falls, the pirates throw their arms into the sea, and mingle with the other passengers sleeping on deck. No one dare to give them away;

Junks which take the people and goods off the captured steam- ers cannot be pursued because of the shallow water. Every one knows that hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of plünder have passed through the village fler forms the pirates, headquarters, bet no one is convicted.

Mountain Retreats

«Now and again the poilte Chinese authorities placate foreign cpinion by burning a few cottages. The pirates, according to the best information of the Hong Kong | C.ID. Wive in retreats in the

mountains behind

"They are the descendants of generations of pirates.

The Chinese pirates are ruth- less, usually polite, and not very good sailors. Captains of pirated ships have told me they have seen their captors seasick

Their politeness reached its high level in the extraordinary case of the sa Hydranges in 1923 a case which fiction could not beat.

"This ship had been a British and when the royal naval sloop, and capture occurred it had only left Hong Kong about an hour for its fourney north to Swatow

maining officers exchanged shot for shot with the pirates.

"Then a new terror, begezz- Flames 'from beneath began to en- velop the bridge. The pirates had fared it with waste and oil from

the engine rooms.

The officers, fire behind them, pirates in front, fought their way from the burning bridge.

"The screaming passengers were being put off in boats Then. after one and a quarter ("hours" fight in the darkness the pirates' shots suddenly, ceased and the pirates vanished among the pas- serigers, leaving twelve of their number dead. ».

"A wireless message had sum- moned the warships Sterling and Sirdal to the ship's aid."

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Steamship Gange Leaves To-morrow

The Lloyd Triesting fast liner s.s. Gange leaves to-morrow from, Jardine's Fast Footing Wharf at

am. She is commanded by Cath tain L. Cello, and besides carrying. numerous passengers and freight, connects at Singapore with the Imperial Air Mail service. Letters sent by this fine hould arrive in London on July 30. The last tender from the Custom's Jetty to the liner will leave at 8 am heavy baggage should be sent to Messrs. Marden & Co.'s godown at 10 Hankow Road by noon to-day. This is the latest time for receival.

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Other pessels, Captain Ashby. the acquittal of seven and the leaving northwards to-morrow are sentencing of 24 members of the the CN, A. Newchwang and the forbidden "organisation of Godless" | 1.-C.EN, s.a. Tingsang. The former to mild terms of three months and calls only at Newchwang and sails the payment of a hundred marks from the French Bund at noon, fines. The defendanta, all belong the latter calls at Wethalwel, ing to the "Proletarian Society of Chefoo and Tientsin. The 85. Free Thinkers" were charged with Tingsang, la commanded by, Cap- ng continued the banned group tain 8. J. Barden and salls, from Old Ningpo Wharf at 3.30 am, on Friday morning.

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