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E.P. & A.L. Careless,
Solicitors,
Llandrindod Wells,
14th November, 1928.
Dear Sir,
On the 26th September last Mr. David Clifford Jones the
first Officer of the S.S. "Anking", a British Ship, was killed
by Pirates in the China Seas whilst on a voyage from Singapore
to Hong Kong. The facts of this outrage are as follows:-
When the S.S. "Anking" sailed from Singapore she carried
about 1200 Chinese passengers bound for Hong Kong. It is
believed that it is the custom to search all Natives for Arms
upon embarkation, and no doubt this was done in this case. All
went well with the Ship until the evening of the 26th September
when in the Bay of Tongking the British Officers were rushed by
some forty to fifty of the men who had come aboard as passengers.
Captain C.. Plunkett-Cole and the Chief Officer David Clifford
Jones were on the Bridge in charge of the Ship, and the first
act of the Pirates was to rush the ridge and shoot dead Chief
Officer David Clifford Jones and seriously wound Captain C.E.
They seriously wounded the Third Officer A.T.
Campbell and shot dead Chief Engineer Henry Thomson. The
Pirates gained complete control of the Ship and with lights
extinguished steered a course to Honghai Bay. They ransacked
the Ship and collected everything of value, and when they
arrived at their destination on the Chinese Coast in Honghai
Bay, they took ashore openly by means of the Ship's Boats
all the booty they had collected worth about £10,000, and also
took with them some of the Passengers as hostages. These
Passengers upon being searched by the Pirates were found to
Plunkett-Cole.
Captain Ernest Evans, M.P.,
House of Commons,
London.
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