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Show i And Release of Prisoners j Some of Whom were j Chained to Walls i Victoria. B. C. Aug. 8. Full details j of the fighting between between the Chinese-Portuguese' forces and the pi-; pi-; rtes at Colowan, near Macao, were received by the Empress of India, which has arrived here from tho ; . Orient. After a week's lomlardment. j . during which many lights between landing parties and the pirates oc- f curred, the alliged forces rushed the i walls and captured the village They ',' found the place practically deserted, most of the pirates having made their " escape during ft storm ' There was much loss of life and 100 pirates were captured. The bombard-i bombard-i merit was hcay. tbe Portuguese gun-' gun-' boat Macao, with 4-inch guns, wreck-i wreck-i ing the pirates' vlnage and setting i fire to a portion of it, ( The origin of the trouble was the wholesale kidnaping of Chinese boys j from schools in Canton. The Portuguese governor sent Llen-. Llen-. tenant Klbas and sixty men to rescue j tho captives. The Portuguese landed i and were fired on by the pirates, a I number being killed While, the landing land-ing force, retired, the supposed peaceable peace-able villagers opened lire and the Portuguese had to run for their lives. The shallow draught guuhoat Macao was sent with reinforcements on July 11 and tbe next day a force of Hi5 Infantrymen In-fantrymen and a company of artillery with two field guns were landed. The attitude of the Chinese fleet, which quickly assembled caused some alarm, but this subsided when Ad mlral LI Chun pent a wireless message, mes-sage, offering to turn over his fleet to the Portuguese to assist in the fight against the pirates He had nine vessels, ves-sels, four of them comparatively large gunboats, and soon brought up the whole river flotilla. The investment was completed by inly 22, when a small force was captured cap-tured after being smoked out with burning sulphur. It was found that the majority of the pirate force, nearly 2,500 strong, had managed to escape by junks, which broke the blockade during a storm. An Incident of the fighting was the valiant work of Commander Woo, a Chinese mandarin, who had done much to suppress piracy on the Vot river Disguised as a coolie, he in- vi. led the pirates' stronghold and se-nuvd se-nuvd information that a number of captives of the pirates were held In a' Chinese house, and led the Portuguese in an attack on It, which resulted successfully, suc-cessfully, a big party of emaciated men, women and children who were Imprisoned, rnauy chained to walls, being taken. |