WHITE SEA PIRATES.
FORMER WARDERS AND CONVICTS. Received May' 20, 10.5 a.m. BERLIN, May 19. An armed expedition is being organised at Archangel to round up the pirates of Solovetsky Islands, in the White Sea, when the ice conditions permit. Tlie 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 have mysteriously disappeared. A Finnish steamer reported having repulsed an attack by the pirates. It is estimated that there are three hundred pirates, composed of former warders and convicts. The number of captured sailors is placed at two hundred.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 146, 20 May 1930, Page 7
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105WHITE SEA PIRATES. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 146, 20 May 1930, Page 7
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