RUSSIAN PIRATES.
DEALING WITH THE DNIEPER.
By, telegraph, Press A'ss’n, Copyright Received 9.20 p.m., July .12. London, July 12.
. The captain of the St- Kildu, interviewed at Marseilles by a correspondent of the Marseilles Journal, stated : “ The commander of the Dnieper intimated at Port Said that he was taking us to Russia. One of us escaped and appealed to the British Consul. The captains of the oruisers Lancaster and. Suffolk and the Consul came aboard and demanded onr release. The commander refused. Tho Consul and captains departed, after warn iog the-commandor that special measures would be taken unless the Britishers were liberated in an hour, and a quarter of an honr later the Lancaster raised her anchor as i£ approaching the Dnieper. The commander thereupon permitted us to leave with our luggage.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19050713.2.18
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1505, 13 July 1905, Page 2
Word Count
132RUSSIAN PIRATES. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1505, 13 July 1905, Page 2
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in