Message from Wireless Operator Reporting Cocaine on Board London, Nov, 22.
Mystery surrounds the report that four destroyers from the ranean Station at Malta have been despatched to help the: British ste. Baron Eleho which was bound from Port Said for Marseilles, following the receipt of a wireless message saying that an armed and bastite crew was threatening the wireless operator. 'The owners, however, are not alarmed as it is' thought that Reuter. the $.0.S. may have been a hoax.
Malta, Nov. 22.
The destroyers, Witch, Wren, Whitehall and Worcester, are speed-jing at twenty knots to intercept the cargo ship Baron Eicho, and to bring her to Malta for investigation of a wireless $.0.8. reading "Heavy contraband traffic of cocaine on this ship. Repeated efforts to drug or murder wireless operator, quire immediate help."
The str. Dago picked up an unfrizelens operator that he suspected official statement attributed to the
someone in authority of attempting: to poison him owing to his discovery that they were smuggling cocaine. He added "I am too ill to keep watch." The Baron Elcho cart a crew of Lascars. The agents state that there was trouble abeard before the ship sailed from Egypt, but that this was satisfactorily settled, 'The owners in London state the vessel has a cargo of sugar' from Java and that she ly not caying
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