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Show THOUGHT TIN WAS SILVER Chinese Pirates Meet Bitter Disappointment Disap-pointment After Risking Their Necks for Loot. It was a surprise to the Chinese pirates who looted the Pacific Mall liner Asia, wrecked In Oriental waters wa-ters sometime ngo. when rwhat they believed to be slabs of silver turned out to be nothing but tin. They were more than disappointed la view of the fact that they had risked their necks to get the supposed precious metal and had conveyed It a great distance In fampans to dlsimse of It. According to W. W PipMn. connected con-nected with the Chinese maritime customs cus-toms service, who arrived the other day of the liner Persia, H ere wt re at leas! 100 small Chinese Ashing boats that put In at various places laden with tin. In their haste to get away with the cheap but shining metal the pirates had overlooked the more valu able silks and other rich far eastern products which were In the Asia's cargo There Is nothing now visible of the old I'ikH'ic mailer, uccordlr.g to passengers pas-sengers on tie Persia. -which pueed rlofe to where her sister ship went to her doom on the treuiherous frags Hint seem to beckon mockingly o it of the nihf flint Incessantly hangs over ' them What portions of the steamer were not broken up by salvers were dlfmemhc red by the beating seas. -Ban Francisco Chronicle |