PIRATES THE BLACK SEA.
GEORGIANS’ BIG HAUL, A MARSEILLES TRIAL. By Telegraph—Pres* Association —Copyright United Service. (Received July 8, 9.20 a.m.) PARIS, July 6. The trial is proceeding at Marseilles of seven long-haired, ragged Georgians, who are charged with alleged piracy. Evidence was given that they were members of a band of thirty, who, disguised as passengers, hoarded the French ship Souirah at Batum (on the Black Sea) during a voyage in 1920. When the ship was two hours’ steaming out from Batum they threatened the master, Captain Sparks, with revolvers, and out the ivirelees and robbed the passengers. They then stopped the ship and forced the crew to row them and their plunder ashore. They made a haul worth £BO,OOO. It is alleged that the pirates conducted the affair with an air of gallantry, and kissed the women’s hands before removing their rings. They left the passengers their small dhange, even giving some a few coins which had been stolen from others.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16780, 8 July 1922, Page 9
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