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...recent outside raider, who had set up a thriving bank account on library loot, was nabbed in the act later in the summer, and confronted with Shea's typewritten records on the robberies, broke down and confessed in Cambridge police headquarters...
...That did not deter Stanley's expedition. It left Zanzibar on steamers for the mouth of the Congo in February 1887. The party consisted of eight white officers, some 600 Zanzibaris, 60 armed Soudanese, four Syrians, 13 Somalis. During part of the journey it carried a wealthy slave raider named Tippu-Tib, "gorgeously clad in silks, a jeweled turban and jeweled kris," with his 96 relatives. Among the cargo were several cases of Stanley's favorite Madeira and a frogged coat which he intended to wear when the white Pasha was sighted. Stanley led the expedition by sounding...
...Raider (Crown-English Films), which English audiences saw in 1945 as Western Approaches, is one of the best of Britain's wartime documentaries. Retitled at this late date for showing to U.S. audiences, the film still packs great power...
Beautifully photographed in Technicolor, The Raider is a cold, gripping, North Atlantic tale about a lifeboat full of survivors, a Nazi sub, and a British merchant ship strayed from its convoy. Director Pat Jackson's amateur actors-all real seamen with their own wartime experiences on their minds-are better than greasepainted professionals could ever hope to be. The picture will delight those who are surfeited with the bogus posturing and declaiming of most wartime fiction...
Submarine Raider. Off New Brunswick, a whale surfaced alongside the steamship Keith Cann, hosed openmouthed passengers, submerged...