SEA CAPTAIN’S END
MYSTERIOUS “ACT OF REVENGE.”
LONDON, August 12
The mysterious disappearance of Captain Cecil Brooks, a retired sea captain, while crossing from England to Holland on July 16 -seems now to have been cleared up.
The Dutch authorities have informed 'Scotland Yard that a -corpse was washed, up on the Island of Tenschehing That seems to ,be that of Captain Brooks... The British authorities are now asking what can have been the true cause of Captain Brooks’ death. Captain Brooks, after a very successful -career as a captain, in the- P. an d O. . line, had accepted the post of Marine Adviser to the Egyptian Government. He was to have been entrusted with the- organisation of . a new commercial fleet which Egypt -intends to create. Captain Brooks himself had hinted darkly that lii 6 work was being checkmated by certain circles in Central Europe interested in making metal deliveries to Egypt. Captain Brooks’ wife is -convinced that her husband’s death was due to a-n act of revenge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1933, Page 6
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169SEA CAPTAIN’S END Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1933, Page 6
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