CAPTIVES LIBERATED.
SMUGGLERS CAPTURED. PUT INTO ST. PIERRE. ARRESTED BY FRENCH POLICE. ijnltpn ptpss Assn. —Elec. Tel CoDyrlgOl (Received Dec. 9, 1i,50 a.m.) HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Dec. 8. The kidnapped members of the crew of the Canadian cutter Stumble Inn were liberated and their captors arrested by the French authorities at St. Pierre. Under cover of darkness the Kromhout slipped into the little French possession off the coast of Newfoundland, which had been warned to look out for the vessel. The police arrested the captain and crew of the Kronhout.
Four Canadian coast-guardsmen were captured on Thursday by the crew of a suspected rum-running craft, Kromhout, who turned on the guardsmen as the vessel was being towed into a Nova Scotian port. The coastguard cutter Stumble Inn had seized the ship and the captain assigned four seamen to take it into North Sydney. Striking quickly, the ICromhout’s crew overpowered their guards, cut loose their ship which was being towed by the Stumble Inn, and raced it out of range of the coast-guards’ guns.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19125, 9 December 1933, Page 5
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