CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928 — Page 61

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Ong placed on 52701B/27

Enclosure No.3.

Inspector Chu Heung states:-

informer:

52711/28

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Hong Kong.

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Police Headquarters,

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 Wim 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 May, 1928 several

hundred soldiers under Commander Pang of the 5th

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 neur 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 been 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-holds. at least two villa_os were surrounded and destroyed, i.e., Tit Chung and another village. Finally the pirates were routed and five-six

were