CHRISTMAS EVE STORY
EXPERIENCE OF SHIP’S CREWS
ALLEGED TO BE DRUGGED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telograph—Copyright)
LONDON, 31st December. What resembles a plot of one of W. W. Jacobs’ stories was disclosed in all seriousness when the British ship Timberham berthed at Blyth Harbour on arrival from Belgium. The crew said they retired to their hunks on Christmas Eve all shipshape, hut woke up in the morning to find the ship ransacked. Captain Jones added that the vessel was in a state of chaos —furniture and gqnr were scattered, and provisions and clothing stolen. He believes the officers and crew were doped by a mysterious drug sprayed through the keyholes by thieves who drew alongside in tlie course of the night. A seamen’s union official declares that robberies from British sailors in Belgian poits are becoming common.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 January 1931, Page 2
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137CHRISTMAS EVE STORY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 January 1931, Page 2
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