PIRATE S RAID
ISLAND OF ST. KILDA. The lonely island of St. Kilda, in the North Atlantic, has been raided by pirates. Mr. W. G. Ferguson, the leader of the party of St. Kildans who are visiting the homes from which they were exiled by the Government a year ago, reports that the crew of a foreign trawler landed recently in search of loot. All dwelling houses, stores, huts, and farm buildings were ransacked, and all articles of value stolen. Locked doors and windows were smashed, and there was wanton destruction everywhere. The pirates left evidence of their identity behind, and were seen ashore and leaving the island by the crews of English trawlers. Macleod of Macleod, chief of the clan which has owned the island for 400 years, has left his residence in Kent for Dunvegan Castle, in the Isle of Skye, to receive reports of the looting and to determine the future of St. Kilda.
Three hundred sheep—too wild for capture— were left on the island of Boreray. Sheep remain, too, on the third island of the St. Kilda group, Soay. The sheep, the islanders fear, are being shot down by foreign trawler crews.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3374, 6 October 1931, Page 2
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196PIRATE S RAID King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3374, 6 October 1931, Page 2
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