Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1891 — Piracy not Extinct. [ARTICLE]

Piracy not Extinct.

Both in China and in Indo-China the ancient practice of piracy gives signs of life, side by side with the extension of European commerce. The French have routed and broken up within four months several bands of pirates on the rivers of Indo-China,' and a daring assault was made on December 10 last, only a few miles from Hong-Kong, on the English steamer Namoa, which was boarded and captured by about fifty pirates, who killed the captain and one passenger and robbed the vessel’s safe of #20.000. They then abandoned the steamer, which returned to HongKong, and a war vessel went in search of the plunderers.