Show CHINESE PIRATE BAND BANDIS IS BUSY Ship Is Boarded and Looted by Celestials I PEKING PEKIN Feb 20 A A recrudescence I of the activities of former Chinese I pirates recently took place when the Kwang Lee a steamer bound from I Shanghai to was boarded I Iby by a band of thirty Chinese who came earn alongside In junks and demanded the surrender of the vessel The pirates I imprisoned the crew and commanded the captain to continue his course to toward toward toward to- to ward Two of ot the three junks in which the pirates had come I alongside the Kwang Lee were abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- owing to the fact that they were badly battered by the heavy sea pre- pre while the third was towed by order of the pirate chief chIet The steamer proceeded toward Hong Hong- kong reaching Bay late one night when it was stopped and the Chinese loaded their junks with der Before leaving the ship they completely dismantled its engines and the pirate leader is reported to have bidden a polite goodbye to the captain of the Kwang Lee and sailed off The steamer managed to make its port some two days later The plunder of the pirates amounted to some Including five cases of at silver dollars consigned to some Borne Chinese bank in One Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese passenger was killed in the boarding boarding boarding board board- ing on the on-the the ship by the pirates but they made up for this untoward incident by compensating the father of ot the killed passenger with a present of five tive hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred dollars and two gold watches The pirate crew has not been again heard from since the seizure of ot the Kwang Lee i |