People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — PIRATES WORSTED. [ARTICLE]

PIRATES WORSTED.

Thirty-Two Killed. Many Drowned and Three Junks Captured. Vancouver, B. C., June 18. A steamer from China reports that a band of pirates with eight junks planned to attack Tanclii, a walled village in the district of Ilsinning Quangtsung. The villagers, learning of it, procured the assistance of some yamen runners and soldiers, so when the pirates arrived they were surrounded by a force of 500 men. There was a desperate fight, in which thirty-two pirates were killed and three captured. Three of the junks were seized and many pirates were drowned while trying to escape to the rest of the squadron. Eight villagers were wounded, one mortally.