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Show PIRATES LOOT j CHINESE SHIPS Guns Placed on Ocean Going Vessels to Repel Buccaneers V SHANGHAI. Jan. 15. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of the Associated Preaa) hl-nese hl-nese Shipping compiles, locking ov- , lernment' protection from pirates who j have been serine and lootlns' ocean 'rrolnir ve?ael In buccaneer style, have 1 taken to errnlnrr their ships und plac-I plac-I lnr details of jruards aboard them. N'o traco hf4 been found o.' ono pi-1 rate band. 30 !-i number, vrhost i cm-1 hers ehlppcd In tho Bi'!s:o of pa-.en-j ' jfera aboard tho steamt Kwansloc frcm Shansjhnl to Hone pchs 'ast Dc-1 Dc-1 cember. t nd. when a C out trom Honj IlcnT. -vsihed the hip, l:nprls-i l:nprls-i oned the ofricers and c v and looted loot-ed the vessel rnd !! ':ns;crs of valuables eatlmiited to : i worth 5iK'.-1 5iK'.-1 000 Mexican That t!. freebooters I were not devoid of -mo chivalrous In-ctlnct In-ctlnct a Indicaied when they dls-l covered thai o"0 of the paasonscra I , .. had rebbed v,-es the wlfs of Dr. Tlri f-F - formerly nmbansador ' to VVe?hinrtort, and now a leader of 1 the South Chins movement; On learn-1 hi? her identity they re:urned Mrs. , u's money and valuables with apol- LJ oyles for dioturblnfj her. To a pas-laehges pas-laehges whose son had bc?n killed In : the raid cn the ship, the ptraleo cave I S500 In cash and two watches taken i ; from other travelers. Two weeks after the Kwanylee epl- Jtode, the stears-sr Helngwa was nt-j nt-j tacked by t i'atcs between Hon? Kong I and Shan Ml The marauders sur-i sur-i rounded the vessel with their Junks, firod a fusillade of shots and clambered clamb-ered over the sides, overpowering the Chinese captain and crew The 261 passengers were stripped of their valuables val-uables amounting to about f 2f,iu0 and the ship abandoned by the pirates at a lenely spot on the roast . oo |