Show H HAPPY BUCCANEERS BUCCANEERS' I KISS WOMEN BUT C TAKE JEWELS i. i l rT r-rT Turkish Pirates Loot French hips Smile and andr r r Harm None j t Y By Newton C. C Parke Int ati nal News S Service Serice Staff Correspondent V MARSEILLES June 52 No No pirate Spanish Main had any more right Id call himself a jolly sea rover v than han the band of care carefree tree Turkish Turkish'S S 'S who went through the I ers othe i French rench steamer of off a Just like an old time i it i robber In the West The story r lie has as Just been told here C Captain pt ln Mattel MatteI of the which has Just jus reached port on the return GALLANTRY 5 j I i a an was yta one of the c. c ous traits of the band They bent low the hands of the women J r before proceeding to despoil them P pr or beIr rings They begged pardon before breaking open open- a trunk which they hoy Imagined contained valuables They The were pOlite to the the commander arid and rid the cre and said Au revoIr bon v io voyage y ge ge In the pl tone Imag- Imag friable when the they left leu with their booty It ff Captain Mattel Mattei had read a cert certain ln o sea stories stories' by an Amerl S dan an author he would have said that S Je Kle We chief of the band w was s the pleasantS pleasant- pleasant S Vest est pirate who ever cut a throat or or a ship I THE THE CAPTAINS CAPTAIN'S STORY 4 Here it-Here ere is part of of the c captains captain's story S'S We Ye left Batum on May 6 with passengers of ot whom a large part part at were French The twenty-five twenty S o bandits bandit's who wo finally h held ld us up came Aboard board loard w with th tickets and passports In Border and affable r. r They were quiet Although I remembered later that they f t professed h to be We were jT on ori j c our ur way to when abou about VJ 0 dock o'clock In the evening the bandits S who had taken up strategic positions nil all over the ship covered me and my officer officers with revolvers and announced t f fj that th they y owned the vessel RIFLED EVERYTHING j i i They proceeded to demolish the v o wireless Installation and while a dozen 1 of of them kep kept kepI watch over us the rest resty I jr y went ent through the sa saloons ms and d C cabins s. s They je 3 inspected ted everything They broke nto to trunks The pirates were very I X S gallant galat especially toward the French women I of them v passengers saw two 1 r Geor lans I I I- believe bowed with I I exquisite grace before one woman who wa was In a panic paille and fright and tell ten her herS herin in in passable French not to worry They S look took her bag emptied it and h handed it back with thanks thans Others kissed the yom ns n's hands and then tactfully drew Jeweled rings from the fingers they h hart just embraced 1 S loot amounted to about two r million m iThe Ulon francs One Frenchman lost v S. S frauds and Persian n s a passe passeS passeD passeri- S S1 y I er Was relieved of At 1 o'clock in the morning the chief of the theS S band and ordered Captain Mattel MatteI to sail S. S V i toward ward the coast When about a mile 5 o fr shore the band commandeered two 1 o ts and rowed away shouting Bon voyage and waving their hands to toS S ih the passengers passenger a |