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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957.
D-DAY, HONGKONG, 1927.
THIRTY years ago in paste gents. The day before the anchor uth of an island off thei
the area.
The radiog force divided into three parties. One took the Chau and the village of Kwai
Navel expetition left Hongsong, shallow Fra Lo Kong intet of the dusk of a cool the Jardine Mathesca scamer Blas Bay. March evening, five Hop Song had been pirated in warships slipped out of Hongkong harbour No Real Government other two went for a group of carrying 300 men→→ Der m. Kritist. PersonalMarines and seamen--
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The five
were
light
And before that there had in the last 12 been 13 others months credited to the brigands who dourished on the long bar sen southern ecasts.
China
Three villages known as Hai Chau.
With the Marines and scameti
a detachment of police. went cffcers, interpreters and deles- tives under the Captain Super- Antendent of Pallce Hongkong, theo and no real Mr E. D. C. Wolle, the head the The republican CID, M: T. H. King and the Brandes under Ghiang Kai-shek Assistant SuperRitendent, Captain
ships Hermes, & light aircraft werment. carrier, Frobisher, heavy cruiser, Delhi, cruiser, Marazion, a sweeper, and Foxglove, a sloop, under the command of Rear Admiral Boyle.
mine-
The objective was a stretch of the Chica const that a the YourS between the two world Wars was as notoriously lawless
the Atlantic seabond of Spain and North Africa, and the Caribbean in the days of Eliza-
bell the First.
The object of the expedition was also lo release ve Chinese harges who were being held in If not prepaid a hooking fee the pirate-dominated villages on of 50 centa is charged.
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by ROBIN HUTCHEON
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Was wresting control from private forces of the warlords who had ruled China Intermit- dowesta}} of tently since the Yuen Shib-kaf in 1910,
But few considered Chieng as a potential lender of China, Ile why then regarded as the most powerful warlord in the country, China WON administratively chaotled Bins Bay and the rite lairs further north wer argely the foreigners" business,
. F. Blexham, Four Europeans cetertives were also in the party. This was not the first punitive One to Blas Bay, expedition had visited the area in 1925. But the Navy and the Police were out this time to punish the pirate villages so severly that this area never inenace Britiste would shipping again,
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left the waters of the the Marines destroyed every junk ond sampon the
Marazion blown up. The only buildings As they draught minesweeper which then towed them ten miles left untouched were the temples. intet, At 2.30 am, pulleys squeaked to the head of the inlet.
The Ha Chiu villages were suw. The Bias Bay Inrishores. There
on Frobisher as the dayils let the nan had been taken from the
epitors des into the oily slari Then they cast off and rowed also deserted when the Naval Half-cater Cullers expedition arrived. until the
And an observer writing of the Hongkong-bound steamer Sceng
The raiding parties clam- or motorei As dusk became night the sea. Bee two tranthus earlier for
Into the boats and the grounded and the Marines and bavls of rice tud stii buning expedition later said: "The winn
testifled
the hasty was from the sea to the shore The pirates had also Naval force teamed uth-east hered
fleet of 17 landing craft seamen waded 400 yards to the fires eken loot from this ship valued cut of Hongkong to rulezvous small
revcu hours later and drop asemblea behind the show-beach, often sinking waist-deep departure of the villagers. Again and the smoke from the burning Villages went up to the sky and huts were blown up or razed mud and water.
Just have conveyed its lesson for miles around."
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was to
The Object
The object of the expedition,
villages destroy two known to be pirate hatuts and to destroy them without injury to
e possible.
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Ja the biggest village some of the houses had been converted into armunition depots. These exploded with a mighty roaï.
The feeding party destroyed a total of 130 huts and houses in the four villages.
following The amelal report the raid said that 130 stone and ratahed shacks were destroyed sampacis and 40 junks and "Defaite evidence of the guilt of these villages had been obtained bejovchend, and carroborative evidence was received from a villager."
They found city one man-ho But the raid came us no tur emerged from his hiding place when the house next door dis- integrated into fine particles of The hostages were not The landing parties made slow rubble. He told interpreters that covered. progress. The men did not reach four or five pirates had fled as the beach until four hours after the landing foree upprunached but they put off from Frobisher, he either did not know or would Meanwhile biplines from Hennes not tell where the Seang Bee in the creted the target are: and when hostages were hidilen.
at last the Marines reached their
He was released and given a objective the villagers bed fled bundle of pampillets which ex-
end had crowded En nearby hillocks to watch the operation.
why plained Chinese
the villages were destroyed: "This penishment
inflicted
Huts Dynamited
At Kwei Chau, the villagers were surrounded and interpreters explained the reason for the rald. They were told to move livestock open ground sul get their belongings out of the huts.
If
any
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headquarters but when the first huts were blown up they relent- ed rnd pointed out five of the
inoit band biggest
ornately furnished hotizes.
These the Marines abillerated.
In another village, a group of elders pointed out another five fuithed houses as the richly hemes of the pirate chiefs. Up they went.
Fully Justified
Again junks and sampant were destroyed.
And again the Navy sulied off re- leaving warnings that it further piracies occurred they could expect another dose al massive
But the rald did bring a tem- retaliation. parary halt to the piracies which last six months had occurred at the rate of three every two months.
Another Raid
at the time No che doubted that the British Goverment was fully justified in its actions China was against the pirates. Incapable of tackling them. And in England there was growing restiveness at the outrages being commilled off the China coast in maty were brutally which murdered and thrown overboard
others and many
were taken hostage.
In the scries of articles to be two China Mall (Coture of these
account of repented piracies of The next piracy was not until British ships by inhabitants of three months later in July, this regic).
further followed by another in August. are committed by the. piracies
So the Navy decided to strike habitants of this region, the
agon. Five warships, agala in- punishment will be repeated."
carakt published in the next cluding
aircraft the Pamphlets wert: also posted up Hermes, cruded 500 men in the mening,
on the fallen beams and rubble gume area. This time 60 shacks writers tell of some plies of the ruined villages and were destroyed in the pirate strocities that led to the Naval Then the Marines dynamited others were given to villagers viuges.
the raiding the
muished nuts. who returned as stone and Fifteen to 20 juuks and sampans party began wading back to their Iyag of the village were also boats, four hours after landing. to
At first the inhabitants refused
disclose the pirates'
*xpeditions against Blus Bay and some of the spectacular......... piracies that occurred in later years.
Plane Crashes | Today's Competition Picture
Into Texas House
New York, Aug. 14.
A Navy jet fighter plane whose pilot halled out after it caught fire crashed into a house at Grand Prairie, Texas, tonight, injuring two persons.
The pilot of the plane, was Marine Corps First Lieut R. P. Stuart of Fighter Squadron VMF 111. Hensley Field. He landed safely but suffered a slight in- jury while ejecting blmselt.
Two persons the house were burned.
"The plane and the house went up in flames," highway police said.
Lieut Stuart said he was TO- the turning to Hensley when plane caught fire. He said that when he saw he could not make it, he headed the plane away from the industrial section and bailed out
Grand Prairie is half-way between Dallas and Fort Worth In 趋 heavy-populated area that
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MISSILES FOR RAF DELAYED
London, Aug. 14. Royal Air Force fighter planes will not be equip-| ped with guided missiles for at least 18 months, it was announced here today. The Ministry of Supply has reversed Its decision to order masa production of "Fireflash" missiles mede by the Fairey Company, on the ground that those missilce, which are guided by radar, can only be used dur- ing daytime.
The "Fireflush" will be used for tralaing while swelling the production the "Firestroak”---
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n missilo guided by an infrared device which "homos" on to the heat of its target engines which Is scheduled for the beginning of 1069,--France-Preppi,
This photograph was submitted by Mr J. C. C. Walden, The Lookout, Taipo for the China Mall photographic competition. Its caption reads: "An octogenarian of the Tap Mun Fishing Community and a loyal subject whose son was executed in the occupation for aiding the excapo of allled prisoners of war."
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