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Show CHINESE SHIP FACES PIRATES AND MUTINY Paisengera on ieli of Sensational Events. Seattle. Mutiny on the high seas, typhoons and Chinese pirates were among the experiences which the las! year allotted Fred N. Troup, first officer offi-cer of the five-masted schooner Tseng gat, Which, flying the flog of the Chinese Chi-nese republic, nas been docked here loading lumber. Troup, whose home Is at Puyallup, Wash., near Seattle, signed last summer sum-mer as first officer on the American schooner Levi YV. Ostrander. When her name was changed to Tseng Tal and Chinese took over the vessel, Troup became master. On a. voyage the schooner ran Into a typhoon, which sent her fleeing for safety under bare masts. On a second voyage to Foochow, the schooner touched at the port of Quan tow. While It was lying at anchor Chinese bandits appeared. "The Panlsh cblef mate and I were the only white men aboard," recalled Troup. "Each of us had an automatic. I fired S3 times. Some feu ; J couldn't count how many. "My Chinese crew of 28 were caught In their quurters and three were slain. We managed to get In a motorboat and escape." Later they regained their ship, which the pirates had deserted after removing everything portable. The Tseng Tal was refitted and held under the admiralty courts while salvage sal-vage claims were contested. Under a new ownership Troup went to Pugct sound with her as first officer. On the way the crew mutinied, but the trouble was quelled and tha men responsible re-sponsible for It were put In Irons to tie delivered to the police at Vancouver, Van-couver, B. O. |