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TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1930.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

TWO WOMEN PIRATE

P. & 0.-British India LEADERS IN CHINA.

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND),

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF,

WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND. SOUTH AFRICA..

** AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND

QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

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MAD WOMAN'S PRANKS.

For several years two women about 30 years old have been the guiding influences in the operation of two large Chinese bands of criminals (says the New York Times). One is the chief of a pirate gang operating along the South China coast and the other, a terrorist Amazon known as the Widow Chang, is the leader of a small bandit army In Western Honan Province,

Unsuccessful.

Several military leaders have Hent soldiers to entelf each of the women but without success. Both say they are invulnerable to bul- lets, and continue to stage, raid after rald, taking what suits them and slaying all who offer realst-

ancc.

The Widow Chang is perhaps the better known of the strange pair, According to reports about her in the Chinose Press, she was once the wife of a wealthy merchant who

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY was robbed and killed. by bandits,

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From

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Tong Hong Kong

About

1030

KASHGAR *NAGPORE.

*KIDDERPORE

MANTUA.

KHYBER

KUIVA

0,005 10th May 5,283 17th May

6,3114 21st May 10,946 24th May 9,114 31st May

9.135 7th June

Destination

Marseilles, London, Hull; Rotterdam

& Antwerp. Marseilles, London, Hull. Hamburg.

Rotterdam & Antwerp. Straits, Colombo & Bombay, Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseilles, London, Hull, Rotterdam

& Antwerp.

• Cargo only. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pirenas, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the

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SHIRALA

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TAKLIWA

TILAWA TALAMBA

· TAKADA

1030 7,8-41 30th Apr.

3 p.m. 7,936 8th May 10,000 25th May 8,018 3rd June (5,949) 11th June

Singapore, Penang Calcutta.

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She became partially insane, turn- ed bandit as a means of revenge and now heads one of the largest gangs in Honan..

Attempts to Recruit. So successful has she been in her. criminal

enterprises that several Honan military authorities have made open attempts to recruit her, offering her a high rank if she would give up her life of banditry. A curt refund has been her reply

to all such advances.

In some districts where she oper- ates she is called Marshal Chang by the common people and her subor dinates with whom she is excop- tionally popular.

Missionaries, who have some- times been the objects of her raids, report that she plasters towns through which she passes with such slogans as "Bob the rich" and bright-coloured posters bearing

"Save the poor."

A Mystery. With the exception of the fact that she occasionally leads her pir ates aboard large coastal steamers, the woman bandit leader in the Sauth is largely a mystery. Once she created a sensation by taking her gang of bad men as passengers aboard the Dell Maru, a large Japanese ship, and sacking it after! it was less than a day out of port. This happened between Swatow and Hong Kong, and the pirate chieftain, after seizing the officers and herding the crow aft, took pos-, session of the ship.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)-matches and bulky foodstuffs and

'NELLORE

TANDA

ST. ALBANS

6,853

6,066

1930 2nd May

4 p.m. 7th June 4.500 4th July,

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Regular monthly sailings froin Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong

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The E. & A. S.9. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shangbai, Iloite, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as in. ducement offera.

+

Frequent connections from Australia with the following

As it was loaded principally with the passengers, who were mostly Chinese, possessed few valuables and money, she publicly gave vent, to her disgust by tweaking the first minte's nose. The piracy, she told the mate, had eont her $1,500, and she felt lucky to realise half that

sum.

Took. Possession. After her men had gone through the pockets and luggage of all the passengers on board, the woman leader mounted the bridge and flourishing two automatic pistols took possession. Two Sikh guards.

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdont vis New attempted to resist and she shot Zealand, Vancouver. San Francisco, etc.

The P.&O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal.

The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.

both of them, one dying a week later in a Hong Kong hospital.

For forty-eight hours she stood

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for. Southampton and guard with her pirates, and, ac- London via Panama Canal,

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

TILAWA

*LAHORE KHIVA *ALIPORE

TALAMBA

TANDA TAKADA RANPURA TALMA

JEYPORE KARMALA +MOREA KALYAN RAJPUTANA

1930

10,000 tat May Anoy, S'hai, Moj, Kobe & Ozaka

Daylight 0,301 9th May Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

May Shanghai, Majl, Kabe & Yokohama. 5,273

11th May Moji & Kobe,

0,136

9th

8,018 15th

May

Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Oreka. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. Amoy, Mejl, Kobe & Daaks.

A

0,050

17th

May 9,849 20th May 10,801 23rd May Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 Iat June Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

5.318 1st June Shanghai, Moli, Kobe & Yokohama. 0,128 6th June Shanghai, Moll, Hobe & Yokohama. 10,054

20th June Shanghal, Moj, Kobe & Yokohama. 0,341 4th Joly Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama 18,568 18th July Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Cargo only. † Calls at Tsingtau & Wel-hal-wei.

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CHICAGO OF THE ARCHDUKE'S ARREST

EAST."

SHANGHAI GANGSTERS AT

WORK..

COMPRADORE KIDNAPPED,

Shooting the Chinese chauffeur through the shoulder, a gang of four armed men, in broad daylight on the morning of April 21, kid- napped Mr. Tong Tas-zu, a wealthy Chinese and one of the compra- dores of the Bank of Communica- tions, outside his residence in Sinza Road and drove their victim off in his own car. made a gallant attempt to save his The chauffeur, who

master, was thrown from the car and eventually found his way to the Gordon Road Police Station where he reported the matter.

shortly after 3.30 am. outside a The daring crime was committed

small lane leading, off Sinza Road between Medhurst and Carter Roads. Careful preparations had obviously been made by the gang who had been waiting. In the vicinity for some time, according to residents who witnessed the kidnapping. Mr. Tong left his house as usual shortly before 9.30, and walked a short distance from his house down a small lane to Sinza Road. where his car was waiting.

Mr. Tong was about to step into his car when four men approached and their appearance was such that Afr. Tony told his chauffeur to get the car moving as quickly as pos- ible. At the same time he stepped

into the dar.

vehicle and two of them producing The four men closed round the pistols, ordered the driver to leave the wheel. Instead, the latter started the engine and attempted

to drive off.

Without hesitation 'one of the kidnappers fired two shots, one of which struck the side of the car and the other entered the driver's shoulder. 'He collapsed at the wheel as two of the men jumped

into the back seat and kept Mr. Tong covered. The other two men dragged the chauffeur from the driving seat and bundled him into the roadway. One of the men then took the wheel and drove off.

The affair took place so quickly and the shota "so startled the people passing, in the vicinty, that few of them were able to give any connected version of the kidnapping..

cording to reports, even took turns at the wheel, relieving the Japan-

The chauffeur, bleeding pro- ese pilot, whom she kept on the job

the wound in at the point of a pistol. Put- fusely from ting into a small bay, above Hong his shoulder, obtained a ricsha und drove to the nearest Kong, she took her men ashore and presumably fled into the interior.

station where he informed. This is her last known adven- the police who are now making

Nothing has been heard investigations.-Shanghai Times.

ture.

from her since, but the Canton and Hong Kong authorities are not sure that she will not appear again be- fore long.

Three men, who were painting a bridge across Cardiff, fell into the water when

the River Taff, ati

some staging collapsed. All efforts to rescue them failed.

STRANGE FREAK,

Boulders Roll into Harbour.

the

London, April 24. A strange disturbance on floor of the ocean to-day caused a heavy surf which damaged 900, feat of the breakwater off Plymouth harbour.

"Scarface" Cepone is expected to remain in Chkago until the primary Huge boulders have been rolled elections, in order to sell the services into the important port endanger- of his gang to the highest bidder. ing navigation.

Engineers are puzzled over the At. & Rome flying ground, an steady continuance of the sub- aoroplane, started by accident, made" marino”

a short flight without a pilot."

Press.

|

Leopold Runs Foul of

-Law.

NECKLACE CASE.

New York, April 24. Archduke Leopold of Austria to- day surrendered to District At- torney C. T. Crain of Manhattan. He will be tried on charges of grand larceny in connection with the sale of a necklace valued at $400,000.

The necklace, given to ancestors of Archduchess Marie Theresa by disappeared after a British secret Napoleon Bonaparte, mysteriously

service agent had offered to sell it. Archduke Leopold is charged with having aided in the disappearance of the necklace.

When taken to police headquar- ters to have his finger prints taken, like any ordinary criminal, Aroh- duke Leopold vigorously protested his innocence-United Press.

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far

for Kowloon; but they may be used the Victoria Naval Yard and Aberdeen, the differences being very small.

The times of high and low-water must not be considered to coincid with the times of slack-water and change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct.

April 29 to May 5, 1980.

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AL

Bt. Times Timos

Tasa 19 m.9. 13° | 6,9. m 3 g6

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*1.0 Wei 30 m 94572 m 3 62

4 51 6.7 Tour 1 m 10 14 75m 4 18

0.8 -ri

0 19 4.4m 4 43 2.1 10 D1 75 6 38 a 0.7 3m 161 4.0 m 6 3.5 11 87 7.47514 0.8 m 241 38 m 5 248,7 0 20 4219 18. | 1a Noinferior B ar Low W.

1 68 6.7 10 10

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