FIGHT IN RED SEA.
AN ATTACK m PIRATES
SYDNEY, Marth 29.
nij, c steamer Kibborn, which hat • ye a fromG.ey's llarboar, was the central fignre h a recent sensational indent io the Re<l Sea. On her previous voyage to the United Kingdon and Japan the steamer struck a reef .'a the Red Sea near the Farisan Islands. Sixty boats, containing about 800 Bedouin pirates, grounded the vesssl and opened fire returned the fire, and irhen their imnnnition was exhausted they escapad in an Arab dhow, which stood by, and e/entually brought as gisttnee to the disabled steamer. Humwbile th? pirates stripped tie xeaael of all port ibta valuables and get gafely away. The Kibbarn wag aftei. vsrds towed to Perim nnd repairec 1 .
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5490, 1 April 1910, Page 3
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