GEORGIAN PIRATES.
CAPTURE OF FRENCH SHIP. TEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. (Received 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, July 23. Four of the pirates who captured and I looted, the French ship Souirah were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. The others were acquitted.—("Times.") An earlier cablegram stated: "The trial i 3 proceeding at Marseilles of seven long-haired Georgians, who are charged with piracy. Evidence was given that they were members of a band of 30 who, disguised as passengers, boarded the French ship Souirah at Batum during a voyage in 1920. When two houre out from Batum they threatened Captain Sparks with revolvers, cut the wireless, robbed the passengers, stopped the ship, and forced the crew to row them and their plunder ashore. They made a haul worth £80,000. It was alleged that the pirates conducted the affair with an air of gallantry, kissed the women's hands before removing their rings, and left passengers their small change, even giving some a few coins stolen from others."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 173, 24 July 1922, Page 5
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