PIRACY BY REBEL TRAWLERS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 9

PIRACY BY REBEL TRAWLERS

Cargoes Of Three Neutral Ships Confiscated

(Received January 12, 9.30 p.m.)

GIBRALTAR, January 12. Eighty-four members of the crews of the Latvian steamer Everards and two Greek steamers, the Hissos and the Nicolaou Eleni, arrived unexpectedly in Hissos today. The captains of the Everards and the Nicolaou Eleni told how, when they were captured ,by rebel armed trawlers, they we'e forced to steam to Ceuta to discharge their cargoes, after which Spanish crews were placed aboard the steamers, which proceeded to sea. The Greek and Latvian crews were imprisoned, but eventually released and permitted to sail in the Hissos, whose cargo was also confiscated. None of the ships was bound for Spanish ports. Two carried coal to f Oran and the third sugar to Marseilles. The members of the crews complained of bad treatment and bad food.