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TUESDAY.

JANUARY 99. 1924.

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TAI LEE"

PIRATED;

WELL-KNOWN RIVER SKIPPER KILLED,

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The ship was whelor, weigh all the tipe od at fear in the morning lad, under the directions of the PAST HISTORY RECALLED. pinutes, reached a point between East and West Ma Ling which is nor the Hengshan delta and not for from Macao, Here the anchor was dropped and three of the ship's Yet another chapter is been lifeboats lowered. The lot wits added to the tragic history al

assembled in abt eighty basket Freies of merchant vessels in

As those people who-Ind been Pangkong and adjacent waters by marked out were taken away in the the attack on the Kongmoon steamer bots. *Thi Lee." A phase unheard of

As soon as the ship was cleared,

in similar attacks on river and cost- He chief oficer got ap steam and Bhg vessels, is the part alleged to wade for Pak-kai, the port of Kong- have been taken by the boatswain, for which the "Tai Le" was and some of the suitors. Building bound. The captain was discovered up the account from different people and with all possible speed the ship | on beard there seems little doubt put into Pak-ka), arriving there t that the bontswain had a very big 5.30 in the ironing. The captain... part in the affair and it is believed was taken to the Anrion Barry that he shot down Captain Willox, Mission hospital there. An i who was probably the best-known melinte operation hy-two mission skipper on the Kongmoon run. One doctors could not save his life, and Indian guard also met his death at he embed two hours later. The the hands of the pirates while two Indians were also taken to the Mis- others were seriously wounded insion for treatment.

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attempting to stem the rush for Whilo' ttt Pak-ka, H.31.S. control of the vessel, 1001 cot-Itobin' * arrived. On a reperi prising money, jewellery, valuables, being made to her commander, she property, etc., conservatively esti-immediately made for the spot nated at over a lakh, but said to be when the pirates landed but no as much as $900 in another ins was fond except one of the quarter, Insbren talten and a large firebonts which had been abandon- number of passengers were killed. After the passengers had beah napped, ostenbly for rinson. disembarked, the "Tai Lau" put! back for Hongkong with the bodies

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Sunday evening with about 600|hera at 9.10 p.m. when the bodies up and down. "There is also a big passengers and a general cargo were taken to the mortuary and the trade with Kongmoon, remittances Nothing was amiss till the ship had police went on board to receive the

for which uro always effected by been cleared by the Whangmoon chief officer's report... Customs, 'when About fifteen The "Tai Lee" is owned by the landing sms over to the coin- minutes later-shortly after mid- Sze Yap 8.8. Co. and operated by pradore. might the attack began..

the Wo Yick Company. She s Earlier Attacks Recalled Mg. J. Fletcher, the chief officer,been on the Hongkong-Kongmon

Piracy of the "Tui Lee" recalls' At one went on the bridge shout then when run for nearly ten yes,

NY persons have claims against he was told by the boatswain that time she was also on the Hongkong- to mind the recent attack on the AN the captain had gone to his cabin. Canton run and during the war was "San Ning" which is a competitor I Hobson, Chief Constructor, H. M. This was unusual but before lean of the vessels requisitioned, on the same run. About ten years Dockyard, Hongkong, are requested; could do anything the boatswain had being engaged, as a transport to ago, a ship med the "Tai On" to present them in writing to th whispered to him that a gang of Mesopotamia.

Chow the San Nam Hoi") was Civil Secretary, H. M. Dockyard, -pirates was on board. The chiet

Added Inducement. pirated after attack a year previous. Hongkong, pot later than Monday. alicer was overpowered and kept a

What must have been at tadded On the second occasion, the officers the 28th. January, 1924. prisoner in the wheelhouse,

inclicement to attack the Tai Lee" and guards refused to surrender and

S. COLLETT It is surmised that Captain Willosis the abnormal amount of money managed to keep the pirates at bay.

Civil Secretary. was shot as he was coming out fried at this time of the year. Finding that they could not get com- the lavatory, his assassin being sug hangmoon is the entrepot for the trol of the ship and that they were H. M. Dockyard, gested as the boatswain At Yep districts which provided in the lower and 'tween

Hongkong, 21st January, 1924- Tate; he was found in the morning nearly all the Chinese emigrants to decks, the pirates set fire to the after the gang had left, lying in the Amorien. It is a stom for the vessel. Over a hundred lives were lavatory with a bullet wound in hus sojourners, to return before Chine, lost and one British officer perished chest, another in tlie abdomen and New Year and they invariably cash when attempting to swim to another a third in the thigh. Whoever wasileir drafts in Hongkong before, ship which had arrived on the scene. responsibile the skipper was murder eat in cold blooil before he could puting into the interior. Those On that occasion the pirates wow WAY sot bave a London address for your abroad make it a habit of remitting nativos of Hainan island with head- natation, Fos 67, of 30 por shop th up Buy resistance.

suma home for the New Year and quarters in an island not far from wetso supply every form of service coquired these are generally handed over to Macia. Most of that gang went by manufacturam, and merchants, Appoint the itinerant traders and carriera down when the ship buried to the seat, collect cosas, etc., full particulars who make it a business of travelling water's edge.

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Sunultaneously with what hap- pened on the bridge, there was commotion in the lower decks and shota were heards The six Indian guards had opened fire at the pirates who were swarming over In'n'sle to get on tlio-bridge. With hery odds against them, they were subdued, but not before three of 1 bad been shot, one fatally.

Mr. Dwyer, the chief engineer, wes theh ordered out of bed and takon, at the point of a pistol, ta the engine room to ascertain that all was in order. He was then kept

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the chief officer.

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Accounts of what occurred said. "ships and in the lower deck aro learned from members of the coin- pradare department who were eye witnesses. Starting sa soon as they bad secured the upper hand, the pirates male most systematic search. Baggage was opened up and all desks, boxes, drawers, etc.,, were gone through. To ensure thint nothing of value would be missed, the gang ordered women passenger to undo their coiffures so that no artments could be scoreted. A

ue and cry was raised for the com- predare, the pirates sheaking in the Bhun Tak dialect which is almost similar to Cantonese Fortunately; be managed to hide himself and re- innined under cover till the pirates' had loft the ship

Many of the passengers werd thoroughly examined as to their

Prom identities. Young Kam-lung, mander of the first lancoom(OAS).

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