The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-20
ORIENT AL
NEWS.
IChinese Pirates
Attack Four
/ Hunters.
EUROPEANS NOT
BADLY WOUNDED
Many Items Of Interest From
Yokohama and Inland
/ Japan Cities.

~ oNGKONG, Jan. S.-News has just
II come to hand of a serious analr
III in the neighborhood of Canton
r,raa E,,ropeans named Burckhardt,
sn.uneer and Huygen, employed in Can
| ton. were out picnicking on the river neal
If is presumed, Sheklung, when they
were set upon by a rufhanly pano OIL Pr
| rates. The pirates were armed "hAe
the Europeans were quite defenceless
The result was that Burckhardt ana
| snalipger were wounded, the one shght-
Inv and the other more seriously one
Chinese servant was killed, and announcer
was wounded The matter, when II De-
came known. caused sensation In the
city. .;.os .ata
! Our Canton correspondent writes: Late
on SATURDAY. night shooting party from
! Canton was attacked in their poat Wy 4
hand of robbers near Kan Chuk. Two I
foreigners were wounded one VI VIZ
boatmen was shot dead. The party re-
.urnad to Canton on Sunday morning. !
The wounded men are progressing law
ably. ,,assrs
Burckhardt (Swiss), Hogg (brlllsh), hus
gen Dutch and spailnger SSTrss. mi.
Canton on Saturday afternoon IN ~
, vate houseboat to have a day shool-
10 A. about 1:3o a M on Sunday,
. whilst proceeding up the BITCH Ill
! creek they We're suddenly awakened ny
I bearing shots. They were soon maze
j ora that thew were attacked by pl-
rates A regular fusilade was hred al
J the boat from both sides, and stinh-pot
was thrown into the CABIN. runs VIZ
! brought out, and the shootlns party re-
turned a lively fire. The man who thre"
the stink-pot was killed and two. others
shared the same fate. This was the ex-
u tent of the known casualties on the Pr
= rate side but it is most hkeiS sun
others We're killed or wounoso; M "
y Snalinger was badly wounded IN the
a muscle of the right arm, above the Ell
= how. whilst firing his revolver out OF one
n of the windows. Mr. Burcknarut was
= wour ded in both legs--one WOUND IN inc
y heel and the other in the calf. Mr. hogg
w.s SLIGHTLY wounded on the scalp. One
= of the crew (Chinese) was killed MI
4 Hrveen went on board the nearest
Guard boat and found the name OF the
place was Sam Tung kee iauhcn
was engaged at daylight, and the party
arrived back Just before II O'Clock on
sunday A piece of string and a piece
of earthenware We're found IN MI; buIch-
hardt's wounds This looks as though
blunderbuss filled with anything tna'
came to hand had been discharged py
pirates The houseboat is riddled WIFI
bullet holes, and in places the paint \
scorched, showing that the guns mus
O have been held right up against the siot
n of the house The escape Of these gen
tlemen is most marvellous ana Is uut
to their having remained prone "h,i'
the pirates fired at and IN line win ti'
windows Gunboats are leaving Tor th
scene of the piracy on Monday morning
The Swiss are under German protectioh
1t is reported the matter will be thor
oughly looked into.
CAPTURE OF PIRATES.
uONGKoNG. Jan. 2SLThe North Chi
ma Daily News of January q contain
the following: A Ningpo dispatch re
ports the capture by an Italian cruiser
nearly week ago, of a piratical Jun
near the Taichou coast, Chekiang, wit
a large crew of whom only eleven Wer
left alive when the cruiser brought TN
junk into Ningpo to be Delivered 10 IN
Taotai for punishment 1t seems ina
the Italians caught the pirates red-hahC
M ed while overhauling a small traolh
~ junk, portion of whose crew ana pas
(aI sengers had already been oadly lnJufe
w before the Italians caught up the
nv rates. Cheng Taotai of N1ngpo sent rt
M wards of cattle, etc, to the ltallans, an
after a summary trial executed six
the eleven prisoners on the 9TH lnstan
the rest being sent to Haimen, on u
n coast, near Taichou, to suffer punlsi
Ill ment there. 1t was found 'hat an u
III pirates were Taichou men.
III SERIOUS FIRE.
~ YOKOHAMA, FeD. 6.-AUOul l.fo III
morning Superintendent Morgin recelV'
an alarm of fire. and at once turned o.
with the brigade men and proceeded
81 the scene in Motomachi Gochome. I
- arrival it was found that about doz
houses were in flames Owing to t
poor construction of the buildings, pia
ed close together it was about an no
and half before the flames were 6
under, and twenty-five houses We're &
stroyed and others damaged. 1t W
fortunate that there was not more wi
,esa blowing at the time, or there would ha
!. & been another big Motomachi fire. L
se9 cause of the outbreak is unknown.
llSs RAISE CANTON RIVER"
HoNGKoNG Jan &.-Divers are
work on the sunken dredger canton n
err Ever since she was turned oFei ~
Il have been busy sealing down some
the hatchways and placing coheI -ua
round the others Pumps are being
ready. and. in the course of next we
an effort will be made to pump the
~ ter out of her. The job has peen r.
- dered more difficult by the 1act u
there is big tear on her uech, T pn
8, must be patched up. Captain re
AR. scott. C.B.. is still interesting hims
in the work.
ALLEGED EMBEZZLERs.
HoNGKONG. Jan. 2s.-Chief Detect
INSPECTOR Fidis of the Penang ponce
rails Hongkong on Saturday by the Catnei
. I Apcar having in charge Henry bu ,
- Middleton, an ex-empioye OF ehe
railway who was arrested by Insp
or Kemp, on the arrival at Hongk
Iof the German mail steamer Hamp'
lager. on the 18th inst. He is charged wit
breach of trust. The Dutch Army
Ger, arrested on board the Tetartos
inspector Kemp, on the 18th Inst, o
charge of embezzling the funds OF
district Panjoewangi, Java, Of which
NC was in charge, has been remanded
~ the 30th inst.
YOKOHAMA NOTES.
Mr. Iwasaki Yasuya, brother Oh
on Iwasaki Kyuya, the well-known
lionaire. was sentenced in the TOXIC
Safbansho to a fine of so yen on en-,
of having accidentally shot to deati