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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 29TH, 1918,

DESPERATE FIGHT WITH GENERAL MILITARY

PIRATES AT MACAO.

A FOREIGN CHINESE CUSTOMS OFFICIAL KILLED. --

CHINESE SAILORS SHOT DOWN.

MACHINE-QƠN THÈNEL ON PIRATES.

· Considerable sensation was caused --in Macno curly on Friday morning when news was toerived that a gang of pirate prison- ers on a Chinese Customs éruisetriauneir had revolted and killed four of the off. cers besides wounding others, ́ ̈`* The pirates made their escape, but were pur ened, and a machine-gun was turned on then, with the resull that several paid

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with their lives for their dastardly attack Hongkang and Korinan Wharf

and Goden Ca W. S. Brown.

The story, narrated to our reporter, is as follows:-The Chinese Customs -cruiser-lunch · Paž-taï received informa- tion to the effect that a gang of pirates, who had gonmandeered a junk, were sailing in the direction of Macao after operating in Hongkong and Chinose ter- ritorial water for several weeks. It was also reported that the pirates had rich ||1,410 0.40.--Messrs. V. Martini, Tád..

G. Blair medically fit. booty on board. The launch official», con- sequently, lay in wait for the pirates, who unsuspectingly sailed into the harbour and into the arms of the authorities.

F. II. Crapnelt medically fit.

Rejected as auft, for servión:-6. Kay.

20 putirten Island Cement Co., Ltd. R. Taylor-medically.

out fifteen pirates were captured and were taken aboard the Customs launch, which then proceeded to the Malachow Customs Station, where it was moored. The Customs officials wired to the authori

ties at Canion for instructions regarding the prisoners; and while they were await- ing a reply, the attack took place.. It peetus that the prisoners were allowed to go up on deck at a certain time every afternoon for exercise. This went on for some days without anything untoward - happening.

THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. Early on Friday morning the prisoners had their handcuffs removed on the lower

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THIRD ENROLMENT LIST. The Guzelte notifies that the following persons shall as from the date of pabli cation of this list (July 26th), he deemned to have been enrolled in, and to belong. J. H. C. Goodbun to, the General Military Service Force of Hongkong:-

Kenneth Menzies Cumming. Ronald Jaica Rawlinson. Arnold Hughes.

Charles Young.

Earnest. Jacobsen Beek, Albert George Graham. Williain Barker.

Albert Edward Godfrey. Alexander Forsyth Brown.

Beck, where they were imprisoned, and GUNNERS TO BE SENT TO INDIA. they sat down to their morning meat.

Information has been reenived from the

Staff, General Post Office *Ladies' Working Party of

the Union Church *Mr. D. W. Tratman Mr. L. A. Langley Mr. J. C. Wildin........ Collected from Boxes, Peak

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Suddenly one of them, noticing an iron-Seretary War Office, London, SW., Mr. Edgar Davidsor bar, armed himself with it and assaulted under telegram No 62940 A.G. 130Mr. E. . Agassiz one of the guards. This was the signal dated 24th July, 1918, to the effect that Mr. E. H. Sharp for a general rising. The other prisoners, who are enrolled under the local Military

Gunners of the Hongkong Defence Corps*Mr. C. G. Alabaster grasping the opportunity afforded them Service Ordinance are to be dispatched to to make their escape, rushed on to the India, where they will be posted to Artillery Unit according to existing needs.

deck.

The officer in charge of the launch, Mr. st. O. Gronvoos, a Sweds, who was resting in his cabin at the time, houring the comotion, immediately proceeded to the lower deck. Realising the danger the crow of the launch were in, he 'drew his re- volver, and was on the point of firing at the pirates when the man armed with the. ira-lar jumped on him, clasping him by the neck. A desperate struggle ensued, the officer attempting to retain possession of the revolver, while the pirate tried i wrench it from his grasp.

THE SHOOTING OF THE OFFICIALS

The pirate appears to have struck the

SPORT

LAWN TENNIS.

TENNIS LEAGUE DIVISION 1

H.K.C.C.. v. U.S.R.C

ground on Saturday and resulted in a This match was played on the U.S.R.C win for the visitors by 70 games to 23. Scores

Murray, 10-1; beat Gray and King, 101; Hancock and Cary beat Crisp and

bent Mayhew and Bernard, 99.

Kent and Morse beat Crisp and Murray, P3; bent Gray and King, 110; beat Mayhew and Bernard, 92

Jennings and Bonters lost to Crisp and Murray, 6-6; beat Gray and King, 7-4

officer a blow on the head with the iron-beat Mayhew and Bernard, 8-5. bar, and, having thus dazed him, he shot him in the head, killing him instantane- ously.

QUINESE RECREATION ». CLUB DE RECREIO...

Played on the C.R.C. courts on Satur. day and won by the home team by 65 to 34 games-Scores :---

N. Sze Kwong and Wong Pa Keung beat Yvanovitch and Pinn, 8-3; beat Marques and Yvanovitch, 10-1; beat Lopos and Hyndman, 8-3.

While this was going on, the battle Piked between justice and crime. The pirates, who managed to gain possession of firearms though from what source not known-shot down two Chinese Bailors. On the upper deck, several

M. K. Lo and M. W. Le beat Yvano- others were engaged in a desperate hand-vitch and Pinna, 8.5; bent. Marques and to-band struggle, in which the boatswain Yvanovitch, 7-4 beat Lopes and Hynd. and another Chinese sailor wore thrown man, G-5. overboard. The boatswain was drowned and his body has not been recovered. The milor, it is stated, was rescued by some Loatien. A Portuguese officer, Mr. and Hyndman, 8-3. Acacio Oliviera, and several other Chinese Bailors were seriously wounded and were subsequently removed to the. Macao Hos- FORTUGUESE LAUNCH FIRES A MACHINE GUN.

Wong Po Kie and Yow Man Taun lost to Ivanovitch and Pinna, 54; beat Marques and Yvanovitch, 7-4; beat Lopes

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY,

FIGHT IN WANCHAL

another Chinese in Wanchai on Friday A Chinese was charged with assaulting

Inspector Sim stated that the complain-

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At the end of an hour nearly all the crew of the Customs launch were either night. dead or wounded, and the pirates, seizing the opportunity to escape, clambered on

the gig belonging to the launch and at was in Hospital, suffering from in1

the direction of Dom Jono Juries inflicted with a hammer.

Mr. J. R. Wood remanded the ease, -fix- By this time the news had spreading bail at $50.

sailed in Island.

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with damaging trees in the public gardens In a case in which a woman was charged the forest guard caught her rudely by the neck and marched her out of the Court.

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OPPRESSION BY CHINESE

MAGISTRATES.

The Chinese mandarin of the old type 30.00 Eell for short of the ideal, but his suc 20.00 comor under the Republican régime seems 100.000 less heartless. Witness the condition 50.00 of affair in the flooded area of the 150.01 metropolitan province of Chibli as described by the Rev. F. S. Hughes, a devoted Anglican missionary. He writer 100.00

to the local press: The village of 309.00

20.00 Tai-pu, in Shen-chai-hsien, las suffered miserably from the floods of the F'u-t' no 150.00 Ho for the last six years or so, but the

10.00

5.00 5.00

10.00 crowning disaster occurred last summer, 5.00 when almost every house in this village of 500 families was washed down, and 100.00 the timbers and bricks, together with tho

25.00

contents of the houses, were buried under 5.00 5.00 several Fel of silt.

50.00

3.00 "The Metropolitan Relief Council 300.00 have sinci made several grants for relief 10.00 of this aid other neighbouring villages,

*5:00 2.50

which indeate the seriousness of the dis 100.00 treys, First came a grant to help the homeless people to build shelters against the winter cold. This was soon followed 75.00 by another grant for the same purpose. 96.00 A later gant at the end of the year was 15.00 for general relief of distress. Then a

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large number of people from this village were received into the refuge camp of 2,000.00 7,000 women and children at Mili, and 10.00 were housed and fed there till the end 10.00

of May. Another grant was made to 10.00 10.00 this district for the purchase of seed. 33.35 And, quite intely, a further grant, was given to help these villages to surround 30.00 themselves with strong dykes to keep out 5.00 the flood water of the P'u-t'ao Ho, which 5:00 has already broken out this summer.

50.00

From village whose people have only bees kept alive till now, by these various modes of help, comes the sad appeal against oppression, of which I onclose a translation. It is addressed to 5.70 ne, but as a foreigner I feel that it is hardly for me to interfere with the ad- 20.00 ministration of the law. I, therefore, ask 20.00 the publicty of your columns in the hope 20.0 that anyone who is in a position to take 30.30 action in this matter will do so without delay, to rescue these wretched people from this added misery."

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"Since May 23rd the magistrate of Shen Chu-hsien has been repeatedly 25.00 pressing the village Ti fang' for pay 10.00 meat of lad-tax within 15 daga This 10.00 demand comes upon the village at a time 10.00 when the devastation caused by the P'u

tao Ho. Aods during several years past bus almost reduced the village to a heap of earth, and the people are in the direst 244.30 straits for lood and clothing. The young 5.00 men have kft home, going, in all direc tions, to obtain food and clothing; the 68,058.22 old people, the women, and the children retna in, and these go out every day to the helds to colleet weeds for food and fuel, 200.09 to stave of starvation. This miserable diet produs sickness and sorca. "How, ander these conditions, can we find money for the landtax? You are yourself well 5.00 quainted with our circumstances. The

magistrate is only concerned with exact 30.00ing the tax. On May 28th; the 'Ti fang'

300

was beaten 100 stripes; on Juno 2nd, he 5.00 was beaten again 700 stripes; on July

7th, he was beaten 600 stripes; on June 10.00 17th, 600 stripes. All this violence was applied to the Ti fang' to extort the 603.67 payment of the tax, and he was further chained about the neck. The 'Ti fang," therefore, is afraid to go to the gamen; 15.00 and the rougistrate bas sent a summ 15.00 to the village headmen, but they have 50.00 for the presnt evaded it by excuses, 20.00 having no means of meeting the demand; 15.00 but the summons cannot be permanently. 10.00. traded. These are the actual circum- 50.00 stances of the case now.

$0.00 The what harvest has passed with- 10.00 out any results for us, and we have 15.00 practically so hops left for the autumn harvest. Webeg you to intercede en aur 30.00 behalf, to citain some relaxation of the 15.00 magistrate's demand.” 150.00 (Signed by five leading men of Tai-pu -150.00] [10

30.00

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Two days later, the reverend gentle man annoured that the facts which he 1,190.62 had reported with regard to Tai-pu applied to all the distressed villages of 1,955.00 Shen-chai-hsen? Could inhumanity go

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Mr. Wolfe administered a reproof to the guard. He said that the woman was walking very quietly and there was no reason to collar her hy the neck as though she were a desperate criminal.

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expidly all over Macao. The Portuguese UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS TO A A Fisherrann Launch Dragon, which was some distance away, bearing the report of firearms, steated in the direction from which the wounds, came, and noticing the g

making off, pursued it as close to the shere as it could get. The launch, how was unable to overhaul the gig, noticing the pirates disembarking, The officers trained a mechine-gun upon them with great effect. It is reported that some of the pirates were killed and others were seriously wounded. It is fur ther stated that all the pirates, with the exception of two, were re-raptured, and taken to Macao, where they wero im prisoned.

It is estimated that over ten men, off cials and pirates, lost their lives, while about a score were seriously injured.

It is rumoured that the pirates were the men who had committed a robbery and an altercation ensue, which ended in on a junk near Cheang Chow a fortnight blows. Sago, as reported in our columns at the

time..

FIGHTING OVER LICHEES Two Chinese were charged with in Wing Wo Street,ged with fighting

was selling lichees when the other man One of the corobatents stated that he came up to him and, grabbing a handful, ran ap the street. He followed the man

An Indian Police Reservist,

The funeral of Mr. Gronvoos took place va Saturday morning at Macao and was attended by a large and representative Mr. ED. C. Wolfe discharged the gathering.

licher-seller and fined the other man $2.

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