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Show Pirates Foiled In Attack on Boat Hongkong. Sixty-five Chinese buccaneers buc-caneers who might have stepped from some ancient log of the Spanish main traveled as passengers aboard the British steamer Sui-An when she left Macao for Hongkong Sunday afternoon. af-ternoon. Seizing the ship e few miles rrat. the pirates held her for thirteen hours, and the crew and passengers made Hongkong with their captors driven away In sampans, only after fierce battle In which two were killed and several wounded, including the captain of the Sui-An, a. French priest and another European passenger. passen-ger. The British steamer was carrying carry-ing a large numher of European and Chinese passengers. The pirates, heavily armed, were disguised as first or second class passengers. |