The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-11
IN FAR CATHAY.

The PeS6Y PlTateS-Ihe New Lega-
 tions-Emperor Kwang Su.
 Acc rding to advices received here from Hongkong and vicinity the troubles with pirates are only just be- ginning.
 One story has it that a series of raids commenced when ten men who appeared to be harmless laborers boarded the British steam launch Eie- nam just below Wuchow. They had been on board only little time when they suddenly produced revolvers and with the reviewers covered the 2assen- gers and the crew.
 Two of the pirates systematically searched and bound the passengers, w!.ile their eight comrades held all in terror with their weap ms. Next the members of the crew were over powered, robbed and pinioned, and the pirates took charge of the vessel.
 Their captain took the rudder and deliberately collided while gJing at high speed with a larger Chinese launch, the Chlnfook The robbers were flung on deck by the force of the collision, but instantly sprang up and boardedlthe Chanfook.
 Again the crew and passengers were carefully robbed and bound. This done they were thrown headlon@ on the captives lying on the bottom of the Flenam. The pirate leader then returaod on board the latter and | quickly wrecked the machinery The Fienam, helpless and with her helpless cargo, was so n cut adrift-
 These exploits, however, were thrown completely in the shade by the audaclty of the next stea. steaming pa in the dark with no light showing the pirate launch attached a commis- soner's armed launch, on Bard of which was a guard of eight soldiers watching a valuable cargo. There was a sudden noise as the Chanfook. witt her engines stopped, glided up to the other vessel and rasped along hei side A sharp fusillade and an at tempt to rush the guard followed. Bu the latter were on the alert and betteI armed They fired hastily at thu looming figures and met the rush O the pirates stoutly. They tough hand-to-hand in the dark for a fev minutes. Then the pirate loudly callei his man back to the Chanfook, tn engines throbbed. and the vessel wa quickly lost in the darkness. Severa had been wounded on both sides In tn darkness. the result of the liberal us of l1nlves and revolvers.
 Stil unseated, the pirate leade crulsed about searching for new vic tins. At 1 o'clock in the mlrninI he found the launch Saiyik. Tn same plan of campaign was adopted
 and met with the customary success The Shanfoox was streered right int
 the unsuspecting vessel the pirate
 loaded on board, and the crew and tn passengers were robbed. This tim
 the robbers did not transfer their cap
 tives, the Chanfook apparently bein
 the better vessel
 When dawn came the pirates raj
 their vessels on the beach Fongchaie
 and made off unharmed, Their night work had brought at least $500t
 Some of them were wouded, ad thi will make capture and identification
 possible. Two of the pirates launche are badly damaged.
 The Chinese here predict many man
 more outrages of this kind before th advent of the Chinese new Xear The legation quarters in Picking ar
 being transformed The Boxer upris
 ing left scars everywhere. On tn , outer wall one sees whole strips of tn parapets swept away. The stone . were communicated by the soldiers c one .,of the powers during the occupa tion 10 build. their legation. The ia ] nous astronomical instruments on tn
 wall disappeared when the foreig l troops came. and several of them na' , add to the ornamentation of the mu
 seums of Berlin. Some, however r which were taken away by the Frenc have been restored by the Frenc . government and are n!ow being pu in their places again. The splendi } white marble palaces around the Al tar of Heaven where the emperor zoe
 to worship are to-day stripped. fc white soldiers live in them. Even th 5 famous Lama Temple is now open. , After the great siege of Picking tn powers determined not to be caugl ,, mapping again A large part of tn indemnity money obtained from Chin , has been spent In erecting the mos elaborate legations and barracks fC