Beautiful Lady Pirate Chief, Betrayed - Captured by Treachery
December 15, 1922 by Staff Writer
Winsome Widow Who Has Terrorized Countryside Is Captured by Treachery.
Canton: Mrs. Lo Hon-cho, China’s woman pirate chief who for years Has been terrorizing and ruling the countryside In the vicinity of Pakhoi, Is reported to have been captured.
When her pirate husband was killed while fighting in 1921. Mrs. Lo Hon-cho took command of his pirate crew and became so prosperous that her force soon grew to 60 ocean pirate junks. Youthful and reported to be pretty, she soon pained n reputation as being the most ruthless of all China's assorted bandits and pirates.
Mrs. Lo Hon-cho 's pirate fleet preyed on villages, fishing fleets and farmers' herds. In their attacks on villages the pirates usually took from 40 to 60 girls as prisoners, latter selling them into slavery. In a recent raid on a village, she captured 30 women and girls.
Returning with her captives and her loot, she stopped at a coast village where the inhabitants had ready a feast of roast pigs, cake and rice to placate the pirates. While they were feasting a Chinese warship appeared and the pirates hastily set sail.
The Warship destroyed 40 of the pirate Junks, killing their pirate crews. Others. including Mrs. Lo Hon-cho, made their escape. The defeat weakened the pirates' morale, however, and the redoubtable young woman was betrayed by her followers in return for a promise of clemency from the military commander at Pakhoi.
