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Show CHINESE KIDNAPED WM BY LABOR CONTRACTORS H MEXICO CITY.. Aug. 2. The sequel of the dramatic story of tho cruise of jjH the steamer Maori King was told at the Chinese legation here today. Some jH months ago the vessel left tho Asiatic iH coasr. carrying f)35 Chinese and 350 jH Russians. Investigation hns disclosed ilEH tho fact, that the Chinese were kid- (JlH uaped. Tho men wero emploj-ed near a!J "Vladivostok on the Trans-Siberian rail- jWI road.- Three contractors induced the ulljl men to board the steamer on the prom- J ise to take them to a placo called IH Mexico, which tho contractors declared jjl was situutcd in China near Hongkong. flH After tho boat had boon out for thir- iH teen days and no land had been sighted fl tho Chinese- became alarmed and threat- Ijl cned to. kill one of the contractors who fH had remained aboard. Tho man's life uiH was saved by the captain, who locked liiH him in a stateroom. Later, as has been ifiH published, a pitched battle was fought (fH between the Chinese and Russians. ftH When the steamer put in at Sail Diceo, fnH Cal., twentv armed Americans boarded rH the ship and acted as guards on the li.H trip south to tho port of Guayamas. . ftH Mexico. Here the quarantine laws LvjH prevented the ship landing ami the men HH again became alarmed, fearing that il they would nover reach tho port of tll Mexico in China. They dofied the ofh- 'JlH cers. took nossession of the ship's boats ill and' were making for tho shore in ll hordes when assistance was asked ot the Mexican government and a gun-boat gun-boat and a lighthouso tendor turned them back. They are now working on tho Sonora railway and are pleased ijl with tho outlook. lH |