RANSACKED AT SEA
STRANGE DOINGS ON SHUT’
■DRUG SPRAYED ON CREW
(United Freis Association—By Electric Telegraph
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LONDON, Dec. 31. What resmbles the plot of one of W. W. Jacob’s stories was disclosed in all seriousness when the British ship Timberham berthed at Birth Harbour on arrival from Belgium. The crew said they retired to their bunks on Christmas Eve “all shipshape,” hut awoke in the morningt to find the ship ransacked. Captain Jones added that the ship was in a state of chaos. Furniture and gear were scattered, provisions and clotnino, were stolen. He believes that the officers and crew were doped by a mysterious drug sprayed through the keyholes by thieves who drew alongside in the course of the night. A Seamen’s Union official declares that robberies from British sailors in Belgian) ports was becoming common.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 January 1931, Page 15
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