BLACK SEA PIRACY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12897, 31 August 1907, Page 9

BLACK SEA PIRACY.

Thore is an old-time flavour about a story of Black Sea piracy told by Renter s Odessa correspondent. The messags s.ys:—"The steamer Sophia, while on a voyage from this port to Korttnon, was last light seised by armed robbers, sixteen miles from Odessa. At eleven o clock three voting men appeared on the dock where tho captain ami the passengers were at supper, and heL them in check, while two otiiers seizt . the man at the wheel and ordered him under threat of death to _et the ships course for Odessa. £<>„_> of the robbers, who appear to have number. .1 eighteen m ail, then went into the first-class saloon, where they took pos- ?£___ • an . lron «a«h-box.*coiite_ninc £5000, in charge of a cashier of thRussian Bank for-Foreign Trade. They also took £100 belonging to the paa_.i_

gers. The robbers proceeded to disable a c P g,mss > an d let off all the steam, and finally made their escape in wro ot the -.pphia's boats, after destroying the third/