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Enclosure No.3.
Inspector Chu Heung states:-
informer:
Police Headquarters, 43
Hong Kong. 135
I have received the following letter from my
"I have received a report to the effect that serveral hundred soldiers of the 5th Nationalist Revolutionary army surrounded Nim Shan, Ping Hoi, Tai Chau, and surrounding villages searching for pirates"
I have also received information that on or
about the morning of the 19th Lay, 1928 several hundred soldiers under Commander Pan of the bth
Nationalist Army, being guided by the elders whom they had arrested and detained some days before, proceeded to Tit Chung Village from Nim Shan.
When they arrived at Tit Chung Village they surrounded the village and in a forest near by the village they found some pirates and about six or seven pirates were shot by them. Two small villages were burnt and five kidnapped persons were recovered in the forest and have seen escorted to Wai Chau for enquiries.
The name of the steamer from which these five men were
kidnapped by the pirates is unknown at present.
Informer "A" states:-
The five kidnapped persons liberated were victims of the Tai On Wa s.s. "Solviken" (pirated on the 20th July, 1927). They have been taken to wai Chau. City. The Military captured the elders and merchants
and compelled them to give information about the pirates' strong-holas. At least two villages were surrounded and destroyed, i.e., Tit Chung and another village. Finally the pirates were routed and five-six
were