GUN-RUNNING GAME.
RED SEA SECRETS,
PARIS, April 3,
Captain Henri de Monfried, the French Captain Kettle, is holidaying here from the Red Sea, where he lias spent 30 years in defiance of authority.
He was twice imprisoned in the British military gaol, and was also arrested by. his compatriots. He is a lithe, bronzed, eagle-eyed man with a steel-grey moustache, a typical exponent N of bis own theory.that gun-running is a "free-for-all" game. He it? also interested in the hashish trade.
Once he attempted to annex the Farsan Islands for France, but failed because he was not supported. He possesses _ large coffee and grain estates in Abyssinia. /He is visiting Paris in order to place his children at school, but says he 6tifles here and intends to depart for Djibouti immediately.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 7
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