Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-12-29 | Page 9 | Pirates and Their Kind Are Not All in Graves

Pirates and Their I' Kind are Not ! All in Graves MEXICO CITY. Dec. 11 Pirates, buccaneers buc-caneers and mailne freebooters. Story; book men in high, leather hot:; who swear terrible oaths and enrry huge swords, arc not nil dead A number of them have bren found on small Islands off the west coasi of M, ieo and President Caran7.i has dispatched from Maxatlan a nave.) Xpedltlon equlppeij for two month's SO V ice with the object of routing the outlaws. out-laws. Travelers on the Pacific have told of late of seeing numerous bands of the3fc pirates who have preyed upon tramp vessels ves-sels when occasion afforded and at otl er times engaged In smuggling. Their heao-quortcrs heao-quortcrs aro ln the almost inaccessible caves on lonely Islands, where, It is said, Ihcy have stored much valuable booty at opportune momenta they carry to the the United States or South American ports. Most of their plunder is obtained from Mexico The Mexican government is determined to rid Its Islands of the freebooters nn-1 its present bXpaditlon after driving out tho pirates UI set up military posts to guard against their return.