Show WAS CHASED BY I THE CHNESE How Capt Hansford Success fully Ran the Blockade S A SHREWD PIECE OF WORK Japanese Show Their Appreciation Apprecia-tion of I Vessel Pnrcliasccl at an Advance on < Her Original Cost and tIle Cap tntn and tIle Crew Pick up a Good Sized Wad of Pin Money San Francisco Feb 24 Captain J T Hansford was one of the cabin passengers passen-gers on the steamer Gaelic from Hong I Kong via Yokohama He is returning I to England after a long voyage from Hamburg to the Japanese naval station at Yokuslca near Yokohama during which his vessel was chased by Chinese torpedo boats cruising to intercept tho vessel and either capture or sink her He was in command of the steamer Metapeda a fast English built steamer The Metapeda took a cargo at Hamburg I composed of war materials and worth I 00 At the same time another English Eng-lish steamer the Guy Mannering was also Wading war material presumably for a Chinese port When the Gaelic left Hong Kong the Mannering had arrived from Hamburg and was shipping her cargo overland to Chinese forts Otf Formosa I For-mosa the Matapeda sighted three Chinese I Chi-nese torpedo boats Tnev were flying Japanese Hags so profusely that Captain Hansford of the blockade runner became suspicious and set the pace for an ocean race which began late in the afternoon i et ternoon The torpedo boats gave chase After darkness the Metapeda veered around in a large circle towards her course By daylight the torpedo boats could not be seen and the Metapeda a few days later reached the Japanese naval na-val station The Japanese government purchased the Metapeda at In advance over her original coat Captain Hans ford was presented with 25GO and the crew handsomely rewarded for the safe delivery of the cargo Captain Hansford ha won a reputation as a blockade runner During the recent Chilean troubles he landed a cargo of arms and munitions of war on the coast of the South American republic but his most daring work in that respect was during the revolution in Brazil a few years ago when he ran a steamer leaded lead-ed with war material up the Amazon river and almost under the noses 6f the revolutions fleets stationed along the coast to intercept him |