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CORRESPONDENCE.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

HOW THE "HSINCHI” WAS PIRATED.

CAPT. TOLLEFSEN'S STORY OF AN UNAVAILING

DEFENCE.

PERSISTENT ATTACKS BY PIRATE JUNKS.

H.M.S.

tance.

SERAPIS" TO THE RESCUE.

The story of thos

TRAMWAY SHARES AND

'BUSES.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HON XONG DAILY PRESA-"]

癟

SI-I think I am giving the unanimous opinion of largo number if not the majority-of the members of the travelling public. in Hong Kong when I say that it is about the right time for sorte publicity to be given to such a question or series of questions às raised or hinted by "Observer in your to-day's issue on tranway shares and buses.

I do not wish to go into the pros and cons or the whys and where 'fores of the' whole affair, but I would suggest, if I may, that the Tramway Company be advised to reduce their Ordinary Monthly Tickets fare to 3 for "Trams Only" and to increase it to $7 for

"both trams and buses."..

acy-and-burning-of-the Ching Merchants tr. Hainchi, received first-hand from Captain A. Tollefsen, the Master, stamps the affair as one of the most thrilling episodes recently recorded on the China Coast. Captain Tollefsen bas er-- perienced two piracies, having been on the Kuangler when she was pirated off Repulse Bay in July, 1926

A Kind Of Police Junk. The Hinc left Shanghai for Foochow at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Left to themselves again, the November 6th, carrying 500 pas little band on the Brinchi soon sempers, a general cargo, and 632 came in for far more serious work bags, of mail. (Incidentally, athan any they had experienced Post Office notification has been re previously. Cruising about amongst ceived to the effect that all this the pirate-fishermen was what Cap mail has been destroyed by fire). tain Tollefsen said he had taken Outside the vessel ran into a thick to be "a kind of a police junk fog and later on the afternoon of It was a smart sailer, finished in the 8th inst., at 225 p.m., after a multitude of dazzle colours and passing Strawztack Island, still en- had painted gun-ports. Her truc

Before doing so, perhaps the veloped in fog the ship grazed nature was made apparent when, as though sliding over a flat sur- without warning, she opened fire Tramway Company would be wise face- an uncharted submerged on the Hainchi with four rifles, to cause such proposed reduction. rock, to the southeast and from a whilst the motley horde in the to be widely and freely advertised half to three-quarters of a mile off other craft swarmed down on the and well before the commencement of the month when such reduction the island. In the fog, Captain! Henchi in a very determined man- Tollefsen said, it was impossible to Der, men flourishing axes, knives actually comes into force, and also be absolutely certain of the dis and other "weapons Keeping one to make it clearly and distinctly

for himself, Captain Tollefsen understood that such reduction is. Short Cut To Tal Island hastily passed the other pistols to only given on a trial basis for a He at once decided that, for the the Chief Officer, the "Third En- certain period, say, a month or two.

and the quarter-master,

If there was not sufficient support safety of the passengers and the gineer,

and they returned the fire. ship, he must make for a safe an-

This fusillade. did not deter the from the public towards such an chorage and, if necessary, beach pirates and, looking round, Capt exceptional concession during the the ship. The Chinese passengers Tollefsen saw his Mate-in a sam proposed period the new scale of pan, held down by four men, who were seized with panic aud, bastily seized his pistol and then went charges for monthly ticket holders would be withdrawn and (needless donning life-belts, rushed-about the through his pockets, taking every-

to say) should it prove to be paying decks and endeavoured to launch thing they considered of any value.

(as the monthly collections then the boats by themselves. The Then they released him, and he

Left would tell) the reduction would re- becond Mate, Mr. Li, a Chinese, scrambled on to the rocka. who then and afterwards played alone, the Captain ran out along main unchanged. conspicuous part and proved him the awning boom, jumped down on self not only a good sailor but also to the stokehold casing and found a very gallant man, standing by his way to the bunkers. There he his Captain all through, did his had the company of six sailors and best to restore order, sasuring the two firemen, already in hiding, frightened people that the vessel and together they spent a miserable When darkness fell, would be taken to a place where afternoon.

This Captain Tollefsen went cautiously they would be perfectly safe. sobered them a little.

in search of something to queach Captain Tollefsen heard a sug their thirat and he then found that gestion that he should make for the pirates had loaded their boats thirteen and disappeared. Then he got the the Incog Light, some miles off, but the vessel was mak-Chief Engineer up and restarted ing water rapidly and there was the dynamo.

On Monday morning the Master already a depth of 4ft. in the fose- hold, so he decided to take a short was writing up the log-book when cut to Tai Island, 20.09 N., 120.40 an alarm of fire was raised, just E., which was the nearest land as the final touch to the drama. Arriving there, he dropped anchor The engine-room pumps were set and all the Chinese passengers going full bent, and, with three were taken off The foreign pas fines of bose out, the Chief Officer, sengers preferred to stay on board, the Second Mate and the bo'sun, and the ladies were accommodated assisted by the crew, put up a in the Captain's cabin," whilst the brave fight against the flames. The and shake-down in the hatchways, companionway's men badi wheel-house.

ventilators were covered with can- At 6.30 .m. the next day vas and wet matting, to abut. out- (Friday), Capt. Tollefaen beached the air, but all efforts were un- the ship so as to save her cargo availing and at 10 a.m. the fire well as the vessel hertif. Two broke through the after lower hold anchors were dropped and the and the whole of the after deck vessel was securely held.

was ablaze. It was then seen that the vessel must be abandoned.

A Friendly Craft.

Pirates Come Aboard.

I have no doubt that in this

way the Tramway Company's busi- ness can be increased to a larger volume than it is at present, and possibly to far greater dimensions than it was before the birth of the

Orange" bus service.

It is not my business to try here to convince the Tramway Company of the practicability or desirability of the adoption of such a scheme, but I am satisfied that the result would be mutually beneficial as be. tween the travelling public and the Tramway Company itself.-Yours, etc.,

A WELL-WISHER. Hong Kong, November 23rd, 1923.

THE MURDERED. LADY MISSIONARY.

STORY OF SHOOTING BY BANDITS.

PROVINCIAL "AUTHORITIES

PERTURBED,

PEXING, November 17th... "' fisher- It was then that some

The first details to be received of men" who had been hovering about' Throughout the trouble, the Cap-

the circumstances in which Miss showed themselves in their true toin" had noticed one junk whose

Mana, a Baptist missionary, was colours as pirates and swarmed on people had not joined in the loot-murdered in Shaasi province by board in, an endeavour to secure ing and who had maintained a

bandits appear in the FC. Daily. 1. The crew tackled them with friendly attitude. He sought the News of November 19th. It appears that the mission anthorities had decided to transfer her from Tai- yuunfu to Sinchow, 45 miles away. It was arranged that the Rev. R. H. P. Dart should accompany her

They bicycled but finding the road very muddy decided, after covering seven miles, to return to Taiyuanfu and wait until the roads were

to

man-

a will sprinkling the decks with assistance of these, offering the broken glass and defending them crew of ten the contents of the cap Stivus and the ship with billets of tain's cabin as payment and giv- wood and various

note to this effect improvised ing them weapons. There was much brisk protect them in case the

work, rough-and-tumble

with darin gunboat" later should at- several minor injuries, but, though tempt reprisals. On this junk the the crew behaved manfully, they officers were taken to the other side were not able to prevent a certain of the island. By 7 p.m. the fire amount of looting.

had spread through the bunkers The footing and the akirmishing and the upper structures collapsed, between the crew and the pirates Only the foredeck was free and continued all Friday and at night there the pirates still were busily Captain Tellefsen became appre-engaged fishing out barrels of hensive that a fire might break out, aniline dye and looting right up for the looters were running about to the last minute.

The officers and crew spent a with naked torches. Accordingly he directed that the dynamo should miserable night in the pouring be kept running, in order to rain and it was not until nearly diminish this danger. Mention of daybreak that they wighted H.M.S. this led him to etaphasize that not Serapis. The pirates saw her, too, only Mr. Li, but also all the and hastily scrambled into their Chinese engineers and, firemen boats, but the Serapis intercepted stood by bim most loyally and gave two of the larger junks and cap him every assistance, despite the tured them, together with nineteen treatment they were getting from pirates and a miscellaneous collec the pirates.

tion ranging from motor car tyres Whea Saturday broke, the and barrels of dye down to minor pirates came again and all through trifles

the looting and the forenoon

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The Rev. Dart dismounted and was scraping the thick mud from his bicycle when he suddenly felt & dig in the ribs and turned to find him- self looking down the barrels of several cocked revolvers, in the Bands of bandits:

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These men seized the bicycle and then demanded all valuables posses sed by the missionary. He, without resistance, gave up his watch, ring and money: Then he heard a shot which it 'came saw Miss Mann, whe and looking in the direction from had started back while he was cleaning his machine, had dismount- The Captain and Chief Oficered. The bandits were evidently DUKE OF NORFOLK JOINS demanding her cycle and she was apparently expostulating when one

skirmishing were repeated. It was were taken on board the Serap the bandits. deliberately shot ber.

'bave

Short-

"THE BLUES.”.

RIDING SCHOOL.

Without Stirrups, Riding without stirrups or bridle forms part of the regalar curricu- lum in the riding school, where the

with profound relief that Captain where, said Captain Tollefsen, Tollefsen and his company saw the had the most tasty breakfast I

He saw her fall dead and then the RIGOROUS TRAINING IN THE attendance of young officers is re-

quired two or three times daily. arrival of two big junks and ever had, and I needed it."

The Duke, who is a small, pale- motor boat with an armed Chinese ly after 8 a.m. the C.M.S. Hacan bandits immediately made off, tak-

faced young man, with a slight guard under a lieutenant. How arrived She had been in Naming both cycles.

The Rev. Dart then made his way

stoop, wears tortoise-shel! rimmed. ever, the junks and the motor boat kunn Harbour the previous day, simply collected the Chinese pas looking for the Hainchi. The late back to Taiyunafu 14 the mission

and sent Dr. Boomhail to where The Daily Express of November spectacles, and his appearance stili sengers off the island and sailed ter was beyond hops, for she was

Miss Mann had fallen. He states Lat understands that the Duke of carries a hint of that delicate

health of his childhood. } on fire from end to end and had away with them.

He originally intended to enter After the disappearance of the taken on a list to starboard. The that death must have been instan- Norfolk, the twenty-year-old pre-

taneous. He has arranged for the motor boat, several mora junks same friendly junk transferred, all

removal of the body to Taiyuan,mier duke and premier earl of Eng Christ Church, Oxford, and was for arrived to reinforce the pirate fleet who remained of the Hainchi's com-

The Shansi authorities are very land, has recently joined the Royal soine time cramming at a celebrated and the looting increased to such pany to the Macan and they came

to pass Responsions, and was final- an extent that the situation was to Shanghai vid Wenchow, arriv. perturbed by the incident not only Horse Guards ("The Blues") as a establishment. He failed, however, because MissMann had come into becoming desperate, so that the ing on Sunday.

Captain Tollefsen is firm in the close contact with the wires of second lieutenant on probation,ly compelled to forego this ambition relief of Capt. Tollefsen and his

"The Blues," which are com- last summer.

The Duke is the most important company can be imagined when on opinion, in which he is supported many officials but also

adherent among the English aristo- Bunday the Dutch str. Tjitaroem by Captain Van de Watering of brigandnge and lawlessness have manded by Lieutenant-Colonel the hove in sight. Captain Tollefsen, the Titaroem, that, had the pirates been extremely rare in Shansi for convinced that his vessel could be left the ship alone, she could have many years under the able adminis. Hon. George Monckton-Arundell, eracy of the Roman Catholic faith. reflouted when assistance arrived, been refloated without great dish-tration of General Yen Hei Shan. are at present stationed at Wind- He is the bearer of seven titler in Norfolk, is Earl Marshal and would not leave the Heinchi, but culty. Only the forehold was food. It la regarded as significant that this sor, where the duke is undergoing a addition to that of the Duke of all the foreign passengers and aed, and the boiler room, the engine occurred when his strong hand had rigorous course of training in the Hereditary Marshal of England, as

riding school and on the square." well as Chief Butler.. CAWEKE som and the after hold were dry been removed from direct govern-

-North China Daily News,

ment for several invo transferred to the Thitaroem.

because