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Police Department
Victoria, Hong Kong,
May 16th 1884
Special Report of Piracy,
See ah Qui Master and part owner of the lorcha R. Cardwell
Hong Kong, 27th May, For H. Robinson
No. 113.
1 Enclosure.
Received
Forwarding Additional Reports of Piracies to the 22nd July 1884.
Pirates attacked a Ballast boat belonging to New Kowloon. The owner reports that at about noon on the 14th instant, while his boat was at anchor in Teen-ha Moon, about 10 miles to the East of the S.E. Moon, his boat was attacked by two piratical boats; a shot was fired from one, which killed his father. The Pirate Boats then sailed alongside; about 10 armed men boarded (Chinese) and took possession and sailed her