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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1957. T

FAMOUS CHINA COAST PIRACIES: ANOTHER INSTALMENT IN THIS FASCINATING CHINA MAIL SERIES

The Pirates Found Me

PURSER. CARNEIRE

of

the

Shuntien opened the door of his cabin.

At a given signal, 30 pirates who had boarded Shunilen as deck passengers, ruce silently between sleeping forms, from stole quietly over 10 i slack of C5309, took out revolvers and riser. moved to rehearsed It should have been positions and ut 10.30 p.m. struck, overpowering the guard, Chefoo, but at 8.15 a.m. rushing the bridge, seizing the

man who had slept wireless

TOOM and then the soundly could hardly be Captain.

a

expected to distinguish That was when young Ross between the Shantung was shot,

ladder in the Captain's help. He

He rushed down the

by Robin Hutcheon

Three women locked in The cabla defied the pirates

until loot

tho in search pirates werO sifting

taking what they eruizer. und they heard volco

D

outside wanted, wearing what they dismated, screaming "Open the door or could and throwing the rest to they'll kill me." They unlocked one side. and the pirates rushed in to plunder,

On the bridge, the pirate at the heliu brought Shuntien to the An American passenger, Mrs mouth of the Yellow River and on roit sand, const where the Shuntien was shot twice, once through Bee Hryall Learmouth sald bruched her

"Some ugly looking Five junks hove to alongside. stopped for the pilot, the shoulder and again through later:

And as he reeled rumans brandishing guns came pirate into my cabin and asked for my railings a and the mouth of the oven

bock of his head purse." "Have some Yellow River.

an

The first man the purser saw wore Army uniform. In his belt stuck u pistol.

A Receipt

Mr Camcire walked over and pleasantly acked him to hand in his gun for safekeeping, as the company's regulations required, Nonchalantly he continued: "I give you a receipt for it and you can collect it before

sembarking".

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES could

"ANTENUR❞

Damaged cargo ex thin vertel wil ha rurveyed by Messrs Goddard & Douglas at Bolt'n Wharf from

on August 24 and 25, 1957, and con- signées are requested to have thele representatives present thuring the survey,

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The

assurance was ignored. Suddenly Mr Carnèlre teli what only have been the burrels of two revolvers screw- ing into his ribs.

He was pushed through a Blower passage which led to

leck smoke roots, Inside Captain Christiansen

and his

affleurs sat,

the

eluuled the

int

HMS EAGLE

candy,"

Dinner Jackets

In went the booty, 20 Chinese and Ave European hostages including Mr Grihumo Niclioli, Shanghai

the of manager ManufacturTS' Life Insurance Company, two young Naval submarine lieutenants, and two ship's

officers, G. L. Brand of Aberdeen and II. MeD Watson

of Banff,

customs ho was

of that Happily

And Shuntien was left lying on the mud. As the lite rose, Wireless intact, she cared off, navigation intact, engines Cargo untouched unharmed, still in the lids.

Overdue Shuntien was by now the object of a wide sca search. BMS Wich found her

Asleep

wide della and then with the permission

of the authorities flew Inland 15 Shuntien with her seriously In- jured third mate Rosa on board, steamed back to Chefoo under cscort of Witch,

A Tribute

Soon after a sampon put of Chinese from one of them flying a white flug. In it wero Nicholl atul Shen Tlen-lint. The other junks. at the planes. peppered away Then the planes spotted trying to make

There

onc

off into tho shons beyond the reach of the destroyers, lying off the river mouth waiting to pick up the hostages.

The full Bet of hostages now came to light, Mr Shen Tien-

A warning bomb was dropped Jin, former Minister of the and with a message saying hostages of Interior in Nanking was among "Give up th

end soon after the those talten. Lieutenants P. L. else....' Field and J, D. Luce, RN sub- four offers were released.

mrine officers, made up the

Newspaper recounts conflict most important, six

at thin point. One said a parly of pirates whe Even with group Europeans fleeing nerosa country. Tho other suggests that the offteers were released from the junk after the warning bomb was dropped. But six were recovered anyway.

HMS WITCH

London

named

Japanese Yamamoto

newspapers

огом

I was not able to discover the fate of the 19 Chinese and the pirates,

And tho

Rose, after about four days The pirates who pushed them and I remember looking down were 19 Chinese passengers also lingering between life and death le she said offering them a un, revulver butt,' A

on the destroyer as she lay being held and a

suddenly recovered. and down a rope ladder had dis- with slumped to the deck and was but they found her purse

until afx-and-a-half took it instead,,

carded their rags and donned alongside. Even the top of her passenger the pick of the not found

passengers toll funnet was below the pas carried back a ransom note Shuntien piracy quietly slipped, hours later.

clothes. Mr Handley-Derry, who had

wore dinner enger deck HMS Eagle's search given him by the pirates before out of the newspaper columns. A tow That was about the time I just had an eye removed in

jackets, one a white mess jackel, planes circled overhead. Mean they lett.

while Veternri, another destroyer. There was a rumpus big operation in Peking, lost woke up.

It is pertinent here to tell from nearby Weihalwel-searched the corridors: A woman's the six false eyes he was taking

why Shuntien was pirated. The back to Tangku and USS Pope, splashing the story and very scream, Hammering on doors, back to Shanghai.

destroyer told

and USS Bittern, ship's compradore was Feet padding down the corridors.

the Daily in Much was taken but one was retallation for the Chinese tender, crossed back and forth heated editorials, including one

Mall, The hammering come closer. A

Eventually, the Mariumo Clems decision to over its tracks until the news strange woman was in our cabin was molested

Chinese authorities against the patrol the Shantung coast with came through that Shuntien had demanding stem action by the She was negi- passengers were herded into a praying.

class saloon and an extra cruiser, It had been found.

pirates. bour, Mrs Springer, a Protestant second missionary,

BOMC, Including myself, taken seriously hampered smuggling

Then began the search for the down to an after hatch where activities.

hostages. Shantung Governor This was the fifty first pirney we were given hot coffee and

troops on the China coast. since 1921. ham sandwiches, mado by the And there was one pirate who Han Fu-chu detailed

British was reluctant to leave Shunjien to hunt down the Junks which Twenty pirates,

And been

killed and upriver. with his mates, his loot and the had escoped

condition was critical. followed up. He was going to sall Eagle's planes Above, the decks were littered hostages.

over th with opened bagg and clothing. Shuntien all over the China Sea They swooped low

On Our Door

Purser Carneire hud stept Now hammering on our door. The mother opened it. through a piracy which begin My

He saw the nine and a hair hours carlier, pirate came in.

He paused, woman. And 25-year-old Third Oficer, praying

himself, and then J. P. Ko had been critically crossed

wounded by one of the same demanded the opening of all revolvers which had forced him cases.

to the smoke room.

Rehearsed

In fairness to Mir

Men came in and rined through them, taking linen and clothing. The light was on. I saw my mother struggling to get her engagement ring off, It wouldn't The pirate chief who Carneira come off.

told her had crossed himself he'd remove her finger below

he was not the only sound sleeper,

1 had slept right the second knuckle if it would

through it too.

help. My mother, put her hand under the cold water top and

of the

South

This is what had happened. Shuntien, 1,900-ton_passenger conster built in Hongkong's tugged it off. Taikoo Dockyard for Butterfield The old files and Swire, was

on only her China Morning Post i sald second voyage from Tangku to the pirates even took "rinkets" Chetoo. That was on Sunday from my brother, Ian, and me- June 17, 1934.

but I don't remember it

China Mail Entertainment Guide

What's On Tonight

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Magnificent Rough- nocka": oil drilling in South America with "dynamite and dames". Jack Carson and Mickey Rooney, Nancy Gates und Jeff Donnell, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Animal Farm". A car-

toon version of George Orwell's famous satire. STAR and METROPOLĖ: "Foreign Intriguo". Cloak and dagger thriller starring Robert Mitchum and Genevieve Page. "In colour. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Phantom of the Ru Morgue": Edgar Allen Poe's shocker. Kart Matden, Claude-Dauphin, Patricia Medina and Steve Forrest.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Orlando". An Italian film, with a medineval setting in English. Rick Battaglia, Rosanna Schiaffino,

Iran Approves Of Malaya

Taheran, Aug. 21. He said that Iran would sup- Nasrollah Entezum, the new port Chorles Malik, Lebanon's head of the Iranian delegation representative, as candidate for to the United Nations General | President of tho General Assembly, ad file country was Assembly Franco-Prest. in favour of Malaya's adientzaion

to the United Nations when sho gaine her independance, but wan opposed to the `wdmission of Communist China.

Entesam medo this statement before leaving Teheren today for Europe, thep06:50 Love Work before the end of the mouth.

The picture above shows what the Shuntien looked like. It is its sister ship, the Shenking, The picture was supplied to the China Mall by Messrs Gev, Grimble & Co. Ltd, Hongkong.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 By All USA., O May, India, Ceylon, 4 p.m. By Surface

Laco

D. AUNUST 23

by Alk Kores, & a.. Thailand, Burma, žodia, & a.m. Cambodia, M.13. Gemany, 10 km.

Formosa, Japan, Okinawa, 11 am. Guan, itawall, U.8.A., p.m. Pippine, Australia, New Zea land, 4 pm.

Thailand, India, Paklatgu, Middle Fast, Africa, Great Britain & Europe, & ..

Formbea, 6 p.m.

1.5. Canada, 0.5.at.

By Eurface China, People's Repubilo, 7 *-10%. Indonesia, it «m. North Borneo, 11 ..

20ared: 11 a Mecno, 1 D... Spailpod., p.

SATURDAY, AUGUST AL By Air Peking. Shaghai, itankow, Kun- ming, Löwhow. ↑ Mimą

Indo-Chins, Franos, 30 n.m, Zhalland, Mallya, North Borneo, Incona, Ceylon, 11 a

"Philippines," 3. p.m.

Denver, Aust. 21.

wod, India Middle East, Virgit Wilson, 35, of St Loads, Africa, Great Deliain, Europa, a pin

Dwall, U.S.Au à p.m. Miaouri, wen arrested yesterday

Fornom, Japan, Ohiowwa, o p after stealing US$18.40 km colum Indo-Chine,MA KYEN

Andopanta from the Denver Socres Bervice | Australia, New Zealand, a p.m.ge once, Tho-coina_ween counter, 17 China, „Propter impulilo, Vaata, folt.--Uniteă. Prona, "

Akin? Ada, Kopi, Netherland,

Germany, Parcels direct, 1a.m.

P. East Mauritus, Mauen. Africa, S. Atrien,, Brazil, Argentine, IN. B, Rhodesia, Nyasaland) Parcela via Marqued), 11 5.m.

Italy, France, 11 am. Macno. 1 p.m.

Philippines 2 pm.

Autralia, New Zealand, 4 p.m. China, People's Republic, & p.m. Klacao, 6 p.m.

BUNDAY, AUGUST

23

By" Surface Macso, 1 p.m.

MONDAY, AUGUST 20

By Surfac China, Poopio's Itepilte, a.m. Japan, 9.3.A., C. &.8. America, 10th, 11 a...

Indonesia, it a.. Масло, 1 р. Maeso, é p.m.

Handbag Taken From Car

Therts from parked velueles jacket yesterday included containing ensh from a truck In Kowloon City Roud and a handbag containing $343, The handbag was taken from the sent of a car which a Chinese women was parking in Stanley Street.

BALLET MUSIC

1 Conaldersblo Raterent, bas

Carol in Is boon aroused Baterman's ethcoming produc ton of the Rossini-Respighi ballet, La Boutique Tanisaque, and Charlen. Horyty La pro

9.10 senting tonight, at

over Iodiffusion, a special edition of Muda Tizna based on the bullet

were

offlers had Ross's

My mother, brother and I went off to Tsingtao for We read zummer holidays. later of the amazing sequel and Captain Christiansen's tribute

to the women passengers.

+

Firing Run

The day

Shunlien Engle's group

after arrived in Chefoo, spoiler planes sighted a

of junka 10 miles west of tho mouth of the river. They shadowed them until, towards cvening, a junk opentd Are..

The planer swooped doen and made a firing run CVET them,

Today's Competition Picture

Today's picture, entered in the recent China Mall photographic competition, is entitled “Jump Into the water and was submitted by Tosškr Lee, 49 Cheting Sha Wan Road, Kowlebt,

RADIO Hongkong

5,30 p.m., Thursday Club-Introduced by Rubert Acheson; d. Timo Signal, Programme Summary; 0.02, 200

0.30. Blan tuguese Half Hour: Freben "And Other": 7. Bongs of the Golden West John Gast of the Organ; 7.15 Ethel Merman "Happy Hunting." With Fernando Lomas Excerpts from the Broadway Production: 1.30, Interlude "Coll me. Mcdar Berlin) The Malachrino Orchestra: 7.08, Weather Report: Time Bignal, The Newa; 8.00, Commentary .15. "Simon

Laure, with Moira Lister, Hugh Durden and James Hoyler: 8.45, The Strings of the Flitsburgh Symphony Orchestra: P, Time Birne); At the Opera: Masked Ban" (Verdi) Acts 2-1 Pruseipals with ArLIKO Toocanini conducting the NBC Gym- ghony Orchestra at The Robert Shaw Chorale 10.30. Austration Magazine: 1035, Teddy Philips and v hie Orchestra iwith Vocal); 10.00, Weather Report: 11, Time Gigna Radio

21.10 Cricket New Jadies, Commen

England taries on the 5th Text by Is A John Arlott and Kenneth Ablack trom the Oval; 11.45, Clone Down.

REDIFFUSION

Romantie Cycles → Belcellous from "The Boys From Byracuse" (Mitzic by Richatt Radgors, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart) with Portis Nelson and Jack Cas aldy: 3.45, Novelime - Featuring the Airline Trio. Art and Dotty Todd,

George Wright and the Navaume Trio: 4, Teatime Rendez- vous; 4.30, Vocally Yours Partha Kitt and the Four Acer; 5, Children's Comer Presented by Auntie Ray: 5.30, Tears Timo Preated by Betty Bouza: 6. Tropicana - Featur Ing the Latin-American Songs, of Victoria Cordova: 26.. Birthday Malibag; 430, Waltz Time: 7, Por bonbilly Parade Deep River Days; 7.15, Souvenir Songs: 7.30, A Pro gramme of Music by Mantovani; 745, The Mystery of Nurno Lorimer: 0. Time Signal and the News; 8.00, Weather Toport, Announcements and Interlude: B.15. CApRed Duck-

Show: 120, Philo Van In

Murder Qa"; D, Gould and Alfano At Uia Hammond. Organ and Piano; 9.10, Munic Time - A Programme at Classical Musia, prochiced and pro- mented by Charley Harvey, 10, Late Night Thua 10.30, Tod Heath and Forbidden "Cargo", Episoda

NS Mundo; 11; Date With Dreamland; 11.15, Cricket -- England v. West Indies Commentarice on the th Test Match by Bex Alston,› Jubj Arlott and Kennulii Ablack from tha Oval; 1145, Prelude To_bifikaight) ia küdnight, dod save The Quaen)

Close Dopř

TELEVISION

p.m., Children's Hour-Cartoons; 9.15, Chideen #iling; 6. Close Down.

7.30pm "Most The SiaIR", sented by Ford and batony

Chwang: Nowers!" ot

LAN Cantorioso Film: "Women's.

(Part 1.39, "£450 of Hlley, Marring - William Bendte; Guy Lombardo and 10s. OrchesiTE 130, A Short, Recital of Traditions So by the Maori Chotch O Wwwturemilumi "Contenderita 1035N Late Night #MES=N***itadines Weather Aleport and AnnÖUDGED

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