The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-11-16
PIRATES
IN CHINA
They Seize a French
Launch.
GENERAL CHINESE NEWS
Lunatic Attacks an Imperial Process
sion in Iapan--A Pest in
Rice Fi4Ids,

| SCulfort n Go. OF Hongkong, the owners
' of the Nau Chau, "A steam launch flying
the French flag and plying between
Hongkong and Kwanchauwan.
, It seems that she lekt Kwanchauwan
at o'clock on the morning of the 18th
inst with the passengers (six Of whom
turned out to be pirates) and a cargo of
cotton yarn and other commodities and
fourteen boxes of specie containing s32
OOO The crew numbered eighteen men
and boys.
! At 1890 a. m. on the 18th inst, when at
a placed called Mong Chan, which is
ll2 % east and 2OiO north on the chart,
two of the passengers who had come on
board with a box containing four car
pcnters' axes, processing to be carpen-
ters, attacked the compradore, the as
sistant compradore, and the cook, as they
were sleeping in the cabin, iniicting seri-
Gus Injuries upon them with their axes.
At the same time three OF the other pas
scngers rushed on to the bridge and
made an onslaught upon the captain "a
Chnaman), the pilot, the stecrsman ana
a sailor. The sailor closed with one OF
the assailants, wrested an axe from MN,
and having struck him a blow, threw
him overheard. The sailor was subse-
uuently found shot dead. The captain
and the others who were on the bridge
were pressed forward, and the steersman
was thrown into the sea. Neither he nor
the pirate whom the sailor pitched into
the water We're seen afterwards, ana IN
ali probability both were drowned. The
captain and others having been secured
H., -. .,,h fnrta I'D ha uirltpG
session of four loaded Winchesters and
n revolver and turned their attention to
the engine room. The firenien, having
heard the scufling, were coming on
deck when they We're met with Volley,
one of them, named Leung Tai Gau, be
ing shot dead. Having oVerpowered lhe
engine room crew, the pirates forced the
engineer to remove the eccentric rods
from the reversing gear of the engine, to
run the water out of the boiler and TO
sever the steering chain. There is also d
cut in the connecting rod OF the steering
chain opposite the engine room. TINS nav
ing apparently been done with chiseI
With the object of disabling the steering
gear The part of the machinery thus re-
moved was thrown overheard, this being
done with the object of preventing the
crew from following the pirates on their
leaving the launch.
At about this time a junk which was
men speaking Cantonese and the Sahul
dialect Shots were fired from the Junk
at the two boats hanging on the Davis
and being riddlod with bullets the boats
were rendered useless.
At a. m. on the 18th inst. the pirates,
having evidently gone away in the JUNK
by then. the engine room crew came on
deck They released the men who had
been secured in the hatch forward, re-
moving some long spikes with which the
hatch had been fastened down, ana the
anchor. and then turned their attention to
tho engine The latter was not disabled
totally and the launch was able to pro-
coed slowly on her way to Eongkong,
II was found that the pirates had made
n fine haul. having gone away with all
the specie, four Winchester rifles and a
revolver, a Cask of liqueur brandy, an
anorOid, n hinoCular and clothing, jewel
ry, and money taken from the crew val
ued at 81 200 The compradore was re
lirved of $3.50, four watches, and som"
clothing: the assistant CompradCre
and some clothing the pilot Si1 and cloth
ing; and other members of the crew We're
also stripped of their belongings.
on the launch arriving in llongkong the
two dead bodies We're removed. Tho
men declined to 70 to hospital,
prcferrng to so to the houses of their
friends.
II is some time since a piracy of such
magnitude as this took place I'm this To-
'ality Every precaution seems to have
been taken at KwangChauwan to prevent
my bad characters from taking passage.
rhe men who carried the carpenters box
IN board were apparently harmless indi-
liduals, there being nothing about them .
10 lead anyone to conclude that they were !
not what they represented themselves to I
be.
INSANITY ON THE CHINA
Tho Pacific Mail liner China had an !
'Xciting episode on board on her last voy- b
age, Just after leaving san Francisco
ono of a party of three passengers VINO |
rad been engaged In that city as supern-
,cndcnts i'm a gold mine in Corea, about |
100 miles north Of Chemulpo, and were on |
their way out, showed signs of insanity, |
and had 10 be placed in confinement, II |
irst manifested itself IN the form of mel !
lnch0lia, and a close watch was put over
aim, Later on he twice entered the .
'oOm of "A lady passenger who was III.
ir was then put I'm confinement and un-
lor constant watch, In a day or two he
,ccame violent once he broke the door
lown and got out twice he got away
rom his guard while taking exercise A.
0ue time he secured one ~ the knives he-
ug polished f0r tho table and on the uth- /
~ occasion hr was srizrd inst as he got
% tho rain preparatory 90 jumping over
ho dii no damage TO him I.
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Eri tu Ert ON thr upprr deck among lhr
a5HrnErrs Tho unfortunate gentleman
coined to hr Hn attractive person ana of
Considerable refinement
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