GERMAN GUN-RUNNERS
VENTURE IN VENEZUELA. REBELS TAKEN IN SHIP. LONDON, December 23. A story $ vailing any of Joseph Conrad’s or John Masefield's sea tales is expected when the exploits of the German gun-runner Falkc, 998 tons, are investigated in the law courts. The Falke was detained at Port of Spain, Trinidad, 'after she had taken a load of rebels to A r enezuela in August last, following a complaint by the crew that the captain backed up Ids orders with a revolver. Tlie Falke was declared a pirate vessel by the A r enezuelan authorities. Throe Hamburg merchants, Felix Prenzlau, Felix Kramarskv and Captain Zipplit, will bo charged with forcibly kidnapping human beings, namely, the Falke’s crew, a crime which involves 15 years’ penal servitude. accused, it is alleged, chartered tlie Falke for gun-running to Venezuela. The enterprise was frustrated by a. battle between Government troops and the rebels landed from the Falke, in which the rebel leader, General Delgado Charlbaud, was killed, his son fleeing with the remnant of the defeated party to 'Grenada Island. Tlie Falke is still detained at Port of Spain, but tlie crew, who. did not receive the promised lavish wages, have been repatriated.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 74, 8 January 1930, Page 8
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