2 DECEMBER 1922, Page 22

THE YELLOW PIRATES. By J. Finnemore. (Black. 5s. net.) Mr.

Finnemore's short stories of adventure in the China seas, in Sicily, Burma, the Australian bush and in Russia, are exciting and well told. The title-story might be a description of what happened only the other day on a British passenger steamer bound from Macao to Hong Kong, for piracy is endemic in Chinese waters.