GERMAN GUN-RUNNER.
VENTURE IN VENEZUELA.
REBELS TAKEN IN SHIP. LONDON, Deo. 23. A story rivalling any of Joseph Conrad's or John Masefield's sea tales is expected when the exploits of the German gun-runner Falke, 998 tons, are investigated in the law courts. The- Falke was detained at Port of Spain, Trinidad, after she had taken a load of rebels to Venezuela in August last, following a complaint by the crew that tho captain backed up his orders with a revolver. Tfio Falke was declared a pirate vessel by the Venezuelan authorities.
Three Hamburg merchants, Felix Prenzlau, Felix Kramarsky and Captain Zippi it, will be charged with forcibly kidnapping human beings, namely, tho Falke's crew, a crime which involves 15 years penal servitude. The accused, it is alleged, chartered the Falke for gun-running to Venezuela. The enterprise was frustrated by a battle between Government troops and tho rebels landed from the Falke, in which the rebel leader, General Delgado Charlbaud, was killed, his son fleeing with the remnant of tho defeated party to Grenada Island.
The Falke is still detained at Port of Spain, but the crew, who did not receive the promised lavish wages, havo been repatriated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20454, 4 January 1930, Page 9
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