The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-08-05
Theory Put Forward as ExpIana-
ton of Disappearance of
American Vessels.
PIRACY fULl0WS GREAT WARS
Island Dotted Areas Of the Oceans Of
fer Lurking Places for Sea Royers-
Piracy Has FIourished Since
Early Days Of History.

Washington. ID. C.-The theory that
pirates are again infesting Atlantic
waters has been put forward In con-
nection with the grounding Of the Car
roll Deering and the mysterious dis
appearance Of three other American
steamships.
IAN epidemic of piracy has followed
In the wake of nearly all Of the great
wars. Even as recently as 1915 rest
less souls who had smelled the blood
Of battle and felt the intoxicatiOn of
danger became loath to settle down In
to the peaceful ways Of men and
commerce. and chose the wide seas
as an avylum because they refused
to Eve under the law" says bulletin
Of the National Geographic society
from its Washington, D. c., headquar-
tiers.
Soma Famous Pirate Bases.
Beside the broad oceans which Of.
fered infinite chance for escape there
have always been the island-dotted
areas which furnish excellent lurking
PiuSCS liOiI WHlSI tlCSC CApohChlo Va
absolute freedom might take their
quarry for examination and long d.
vision among them. The Greek Archi-
pelago, the Barbary coast, the East
Indies, the China shores and the Span
ish Main, within the shadow of our
own doors, have been pirate bases
for centuries and given to the world
a wealth of stories of breathless in
terest.
"In ancient times these sea robbers
Off the coast of Greece, Italy, and
Asia Minor with their thousands of
light, swift vessels, or sea Iaice' as
they were called, taxed merchant
shipping so heavily that they lightly
and rightly termed their base of OPP
erations the Golden Gulf They
Haunted their black flag in the face
Of mighty Rome, which remained i'm
potent against them until Pompey with
almost unlimited resources at his COM
mand curbed their operations.
Pandora's Box Of Piracy.
ferdinand and Isabella unwilling
~, In their decision to drive the Moors
from Spanish soil, let loose upon the
world and particularly upon Spanish
shipping, then at the height of its
pride, fearful horde of daring and
INSCRIPTIONS avengers,
"In the early days Of Moslem pow
er one of the calipns wrote to his gen.
eral and asked hin what the sea was
Pike, The general answered, The sea
Is q huge beast which silly folk ride
like worms on logs. Consequently the
caliph gave orders that no Moslem
should voyage upon it, but they soon
learned that they must conquer 1t If
they were to hold their own among
other peoples, and they subsequently
furnished some of the most audacious
and picturesque Of the pirate figures.
The James Brothers Of the Seas.
1.-TWO of the most daring and In
genious Of these were the Barbarossa
brothers. Red Beard terrorized the
Mediterranean world from Constanti-
nople to the Pillars of Hercules. The
excellent harbOrs and the island hid
Ing places made 1t possible for him to
defy the fleets Of England. Italy,
Spain and Holland, to levy .rlbute on
al the vessels that passed over the
highway, to capture the richly laden
Fapal galleys bound for Rome In Mos
lem defiance Of Christendom and
chain the Christians to their oars. In
1910, at that fine notorious and i'm
mensely wealthy, he changed the base
Of his operations to the island of
Jerba, Off the coast of Tunis, where
the Fates ceased to smile so kindly
upon him. After many Sard-fought
battles and vicissitudes of fortune he
fell before the forces of Charles V
of Spain near Tremzan on African
soil. He had actually escaped, but
upon learning that his faithful fol-
lowers were close pressed he returned
to die with them. The career Of his
brother Kheyr-erdin is scarcely less
romantic.
"Piracy on the American coast
among the French and Spanish nayiga.
tors began before the days of the Eng.
Ush colonists. Queen Elizabeth IL said