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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
OVER HUNDRED KIDNAPPED.
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tempts will be made to communi- cate with the relatives of these unfortunate people with view to extracting some sort of com- pensation for their disappoint. ment..
-One remark thrown out by one of the pirates was to the effect that had the piracy yielded as much as was anticipated by the lander of the gang the kidnapping would not have been necessary.
The cargo consisted of drugs and salt fish. The whole of the former was taken as loot by the pirates but they ignored the salt fish. What booty they received. from the passengers is not known, but it is established that they did not merely content themselves i with robbing passengers of their money and jewellery. Clothing
was also taken and anything else of the slightest value upon which the pirates could lay their hands.
· CAPTAIN'S REPORT. Fifty Armed Men Board.
The report of Captain Morgan dated September 2, states:-I have to report that the s.s. Ko Chow left Sam Shui yesterday at 4.30 pm. for Mickow. At 7 p.m. the Chief Officer, (Mr. E. T. Evans) and roy- self had sat down to dinner, when some considerable commotion was noticed outside. Almost simultane- ously I heard a shot and at the same moment two men appeared at the door of the mess room in a very excited and menacing man- ner. The Chief Officer and myself were hustled out of the mess room away 'aft, down to the main deck, where the passengers were being driven.
A little later I noticed that the ship was being turned round.·.·
At about 9 p.m. the ship stapped and anchored. Several junks and sampans came alongside and about 50 more men, (mostly armed) came on board and the ship was thoroughly looted.
About 12 men comprised the first attack.
The looting continued until 2.30 a.m. By this time the last of the pirates had left, having threatened the pilot if he did not take the ship to Hongkong....
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gate the ship until other vessels, could be communicated with.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
To assist the operations of transferring the proceeds to land the pirates lowered one of the Ko The following are the replies.to Chow's lifeboats, but this was re-o-day's questions:— covered.
1. Encrusting plants growing pn. rocks, walla, rising like twisted leaves, sometimes branching
One of the members of the and trees, sosettings Atting close sometimes crew said the pirates stated they like miniature shrubs. Thes are dual plants.. had made several attempts to pir-arising from a beneficial partnership between an al ten aquatic plant) with chlorophyl ate the Ko Chow. One of them and a fungus. 2. There are several diferent boasted that they were all known to forms of this formidable disease, hut all are due to the miserpeople animal, plasmodium, the Indian Guards by sight having introduced, inte mann by the bite of mosquito. travelled so frequently on the boat, which has previously bittana malaria patiant in, man blood the intruders destroy the red They declared that they were re-lood corpuscles. 3. The dapple-winged mon sponsible for the piracy of the Man On and the Solviken and several others which were carried out successfully this year.
uite carrier is still with un tat its numbers have been greatly reseed by the desinage of swampy places. The disesse waned as infec tien became less frequent and medical selence Improved. 4. Darwin showed that the red elover is pollinated by humble-ben Field Another pirate volunteered the voles ack the nests of humble-boca, and information that no less than $10,- devour the cubs: thus the mar field voles. the fewer humble-bessi Cata kill the field 000 were spent by the gang in Drvoles, though not usually eating them. This ganising the attack on the Ko the mare cats the fewer field voles, the muTY A start was made in that direc-Chow. They were disappointed of red slaver., 6. Ferments or enzymes ald 'humble-bees, and the bolter 'next year's crop tion, the ship turning round for that the total haul turned out to chemical reactions, without being themselves Sam Shui at 3.30 a.m. and arriving be very small. at 7:15 a.m.
Captain Morgan, interviewed this morning, said that practically all his personal belongings had been taken, including his winter clothing, a Waltham gold watch and money, to the total value of approximately $800.
Pirates Disappointed. The attitude of the pirates to the steerage passengers showed that having been disappointed they were determined to do what they could to increase their haul. They even stooped to taking clothing and other trivial belongings of the steerage passengers.
used up. The anture of their accelerative. action remains obscure. 8("An 'eus-cell, Je veloped without belag fertilized by sperm- sell. 1. The maximum well recorded length, of dire fa about two minutes, the greatest, depth attained about ten fathome. 8. True mummy wheat is always dead, but allered mamy wheat may sprout... Na doubt geme seeds of plants may aproat after lying dry fas four-score years; but cesty careful experiment with non-faked, mummy behout, kan golded a negative results D. In almost all animals from pong to me there are wandering amoeboid all in the body, which are able to engulf and The pirates, he said, seemed to
digest intrudios mittubeThe so help to be rather disappointed at the lack Several passengers who were in- mend wounds, to transport material from one of valuable plunder and became terviewed stated that the lights part of the body to another, and it rearrange very excited, dealing out extremely were put out before the pirates left hangs hate a from In Elenor animals the rough treatment to the passengers in what were thought to be san-phaseeries are specialised white blood corpus. cles, but they are also able to pass throligh and crew. Mr. Evans, the Chief pans. The principal cargo, which the walls of the blood vessels into surrounding Officer, was struck on the jaw with the Ko Chow was carrying was a Lissues, where they form a bodyguard dealing sufficient force to break a tooth, consignment of valuable drugs and with a 10 hores de motion pos and Captain Morgan had the un-anlt fish. They took a good quan-atance. Temperature, a measure of the degres pleasant experience of being tity of the former and ignored the prodded with revolvers.
latter entirely.''
With regard to the killing of Mr. Black, a reasonable reconstruction seemes to be that he was sitting on his bunk reading, as it was noticed when the body was Inst seen that he was wearing both his spectacles and his hat. It is thought that the unfortunate officer was killed instantaneously, as when the Captain and Chief Officer passed a few minutes after wards, under guard of the pirates, he showed not sign' of life, either by motion or sound.
thenta ilke thoro,, involved in the tadpola's
sued by the atoms molecules, of a pub-
heat depends on the date at which the
its own farkian topography of the region
the vitials of the hire. It taken fin bear- ings on its first fight with dollberate care, and
reduntly extends its range
particles, ara moying, “11: In some cases, in man art, animals one egg-cell develops, inis The passengers all state that two embryos, and these develop into practically Indistinguishabla twion. They are always of they were warned not to make any the same sax.. When two separeto, egg-cells attempt at either single or con-develop aimultaneously they develop into onlin
ry twine, that may be dissimilar, and are certed resistance as such efforts afton of different sex. 12. It has been shown would be met. with death. Need-by careful experiment that a bee masters in less to say they were owed into submitting quietly, and the only annoyance caused to them was that the pirates made use of the services
Berthed After Midnight. of a few to procure cpium, drinks,
According to early reports, the food, and refreshments generally. These orders were promptly obeyed. Kochow should have arrived at The first news of the piracy 0 pm, but Police officers and, reached the Colony, when the journalists were in attendance Chung On arrived yesterday. She well before the scheduled hour. It is now practically establish-reported that she passed the Ko They were doomed to n, long wait od that the pirates kidnapped over Chow between Wuchow and Hal- for it was not until 12.30 a.m. that 100 of the passengers. Earlier re- how. The crow reported that the Kochow eventually berthed.
Mr. Booth of the C.LD., accom- ports stated that this large num- when the Ko Chow was first seen!
Over 100 Kidnapped,
Unwanted Dead Box.
ber of people had been arrested by she was making towards Hong-panied by a number of officers the Sam Shui authorities. Prac-kong which was peculiar as she from Headquarters first boarded the ship and conducted an investi- tically the only Chinese left were was bound for Wuchow.
Subsequent to official When the two vessels were suf-gation. the crew, with the exception it is believed of one quartermaster, the
ficiently close for verbal com-Istatements having been made, Preas firemen, and a number of coolies. as to the Ko Chow's course.
munication, enquiries were made representatives were allowed on No board and it was then possible to It would appear that when the reply was given and it was there obtain definite details of the out- ship was seized, the pirates forced fore assumed that something was rage. the pilot to navigate the ship wrong. through dangerous waters to Tal The San Ning, "which was thei There were few spectators on Ping Shan, at a village called next boat the Chung On met, was the wharf when the ship arrived. Shekki, where the anchor was informed of the Ko Chow's pecu-Revenue and Police searchers were dropped and sampana came along- llar behaviour, as was another wrapped in slumber, white a few side to take away the plunder. steamer bound for Hongkong. The vagrant ricshas held on at the The deceaped officer Was a two steamera caught up with the wharf and hoping against hone for Mason, belonging to the Scottish Ko Chow early yesterday morna inte fare. No passengers dis- Constitution.
Ing at The Creek, and it was then embarked there were none, they Looting continued until the learned that the ship had been having been taken off the bont en steamer arrived at Tai Ping Shanpirated and that the Chief En-masse by the Sun Shui authorities. about nine o'clock on Friday morn-gineer, Mr. R. Black had been The Police and Press had made" ing. Here, anchor was dropped killed. It was further learnt that their own' arrangements and there and numerous sampana set out the Kochow was making for Sam was no "audience" to witness the. from the shore to the steamer. | Shui in order to make a report to return of the pizatod vessel. This was apparently according to the authorities there,
Shortly after berthing, a dead' pre-arranged plan.
The Ko Chow is a river steamer box was brought along for the re- When the pirates left, and the [of 800 tons nett register, and pos-moval of the body of Mr. Black, two officers were able to see what sesses a Hongkong passenger certi- there having been no official inti- had happened, they discovered flcate for 500 atzerage passengers, [mation that big body had been dis- that all the cargo, which was and four cabin passengers. She posed of by the pirates as was general, had been taken away. carries a crew of 65, of which only learnt later, by the simple expe
Officers' Losses.
three are Europeans.
dient of throwing it overboard. "Everything has gone," said Mr. Evans. He explained that every- thing that was worth taking had
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