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where she arrived at 6 p.m. on the same day with crew and passengers all safe. The first news of
the affair received in this Colony was a telegram despatched from Svatov by s.8. "Sandviken" to Messrs allem and Company in Hong Kong at 6 p.n. on the 22nd August; but this news was not transmitted by Messrs Vallem and Company to this Governuent until the 24th August. The s.s. "Sandviken" is registered
in Bergen, Norway.
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The s,s. "Hoinam", a small Chinese omed steamer, which plies between Canton and Swabue (Shanmei), left the latter port at noon on the 23rd August and after the usual stop at Ko Kung then off Bias Bay, she was seized by some thirty armed pirates, tho had come aboard as passengers, taken into Bins Bay and looted. The pirates left the ship in small boats, which they met at a pre-arranged spot, and released her.
The s.s. "Boinam" then continued her voyage passing southward of Hong Kong, direct to Canton, hence the first news of the affair reached Hong Kong on the 27th August.
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Another recent piracy, which took place quite close to Hong Kong, was that of the s.s. "Kwong Leo" owned by the China Herchants Steam Navigation Company.
She was en route from Shanghai to Canton and passed south of Hong Kong in the morning of the 13th July. When she was entering the Canton River, a number of pirates disguised as passengers seized her and took her to Ngai Mun in the delta, where they looted and disabled hor. The ship, after the pirates left her, managed to get underway again at 6 p.m. on the 15th July and proceedod direct to Canton, where the first
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