WHITE SEA PIRACY
SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS RUSSIAN PENAL COLONY
SOVIET EXPEDITION
United Tress Association—By Electric Tele-
graph—Copyright. (Received 19th May, 1 p.m.)
BERLIN, ISth May
An armed expedition is being-organ-ised at Archangel to round up the pirates of Solovetsky Islands, in the "White Sea, when the ice conditions permit. The. occupants of a penal colony left to -provide for themselves after the revolution, they apparently turned and committed piracy. Russian, Finnish, and. Norwegian fishing vessels mysteriously disappeared. A Finnish steame-i- reported having repulsed the pirates' attack. It is estimated that there sito three hundred pirates, composed of former warders Jind convicts. The number of captured sailors is placed at two hundred.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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110WHITE SEA PIRACY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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