Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-06-25
PIRATES OF 1921.
MAKE PIKERS Of
KIDD AND HIS MEN
WASHINGTON OBTAINS FACTS or
SHIP SEIZURE, SHOWING THAT
DAYS OF SPANISH MAIN PRE-
VAIL TO THIS DAY-CREW
STEAL VESSEL AND PUT Off
GERS IN IRONS.

Washington, June 25.--The thcor!
that bolsheyist buccaneers, agents o.
sympathizera. were responsible 10.
the disappearance Of more than TWEEN
" merchant vessels off the Virginia
and Carolina coasts during the last
six months, received a decided i'm
petus Yesterday when officials inycs.
tigating the case came into possession
Of detailed official account Of the
seizure OF the CuXhayen steamer
Senator Schroeder, by mutinous
crew who confscated the vessel in the
name of the soviet government
After the captain and other officer
had ben oyerpowered and locked up
the ringeador Of the mutnecrs. one
Knuefken, aided by two bolsheyst
agents who had been Struggled aboard
as stoWaways, ran the ship into tn
port OF Murmansk
Here knuetken left the ship and
eventually made his way back to Ham
burg where he was convicted OF mu.-
tiny and ship stealing and sentenced
10 five years in the peQttentiary
Meanwhile, members of the crew
who had remained with the Senator
Schroeder, tired OF lie among NJ
soviet and plotted to steal the sh'pI
and return to Cu&hayen
Getting permission to go out on a
fishing trip, they oyerp0wet their
new officers and took the Senator
Schroeder back to Cuxhaven. vheve
they were arrested and tried.
This fantastic though apparently in
tlsputahle report OF munity ana nj
racy gave a new lease of life 10 the
belief first expressed by Secretary o
Commerce Hoover that the unusual
loss Of ships durins the last year
must be aaCribed to the actions OF bol !
shevist crews.
Officials pointed out that while
weather bureau reports given out La,
night might account for some Of the
missing ships there still demains d |
sccdly list of vessels which disap |
psared under unexplained circum |
stances and in calm weather.
The CuNhaveu fishing steamer Sen
ator Schroeder" said the official re
port in part left the fishing harbor |
in Cuxhayen on April a. 1871 on |
voyage TO Iceland On board wer, |
the captain two officers tNu tngi |
neers, five sailors, two stokors and |
cook, and also one passenger
Three stoWaways had been smue |
sled aboard without the knowledge Of |
the master
When the ship was fairly out to |
SEA the captain Was decoyed into the |
sailors quarters and oyerpowcred by |
the three sailors and the stowaWdYs |
and locked up,
The passenger. the first officer and
the nrst engineer were then likeWi
imprisoned in the sailors quarters
and the rest of the crew were forced
by threats to continue running the
ship
After voyage of ten days the YES
sci arrived in Murmansk on May /
Were kniefken, one Of the sailors
declared il was confscated in the
name Of the soviet government Of
Russia
The prisoners were taken on land |
kept in prison until May ;, and then
carried to Petrograd. Kniolken. An
pei and jung, the two later being
stoWaways, travelled by the sane
flain IN June the officers finally oh
tanned permission to return to Ger
many
Jung one OF the stowaways. smua
aled on board Of knicfken, had been
by the communist tabor
party Of Germany to take part in the
.hird internationala In Moscow al the |
German representatives