Διενέργεια έρευνας της Αγγλικής Κυβέρνησης για την Αποφυλάκιση του Πλοίαρχου Μιχαήλ Σάββα Κελέσιη (Καπετάν Μίχαλος), item 9

• October 28, 2018 18:30:49 Sarika Jain

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  by the Cyprus Government to carry one rifle and a
  

  little ammuniton when at sea: that this rifle is
  

  registered in the Customs House at Kerynia and is
  

  regularly handed over by him to the Customs
  

  authorities as soon as he enters port. He denies
  

  that he had two rifles.
  

  His explanation of the strong smell of
  

  petroleum was that on his last voyage from Kerynia
  

  in November he carried a quantitiy of crushed olive-
  

  seed (pyrrina?), and that this was the cause of the
  

  smell. Against this, the visiting officer is
  

  convinced that the smell was that of petroleum
  

  (which is very different thing!) that it was very
  

  strong and that it was quite recent and also that
  

  the sand was impregnated with it. The smell of
  

  olive-oil would certainly have evaporated since
  

  November last.
  

  Enquiries are now being made at Rhodes as
  

  to where the sand-ballast was bought, and whether by
  

  any chance it could have been impregnated with
  

  petroleum before it was purchased by Michel Sava.
  

  
  

  The whole case really hangs on the
  

  petroleum question, and it is a great pity that the
  

  schooner had to be sunk, the evidence thereby being
  

  destroyed.
  

  Admiral Moreau wishes me to point out to
  

  you that in the absence of any British ships of war
  

  on the Cyprus coast he regards his work in Cyprus
  

  territorial waters as work done in the name of the
  

  British Admiralty, his ships being lent for the
  

                                                                                   purpose
  

• October 28, 2018 18:29:12 Sarika Jain

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  by the Cyprus Government to carry one rifle and a
  

  little ammuniton when at sea: that this rifle is
  

  registered in the Customs House at Kerynia and is
  

  regularly handed over by him to the Customs
  

  authorities as soon as he enters port. He denies
  

  that he had two rifles.
  

  His explanation of the strong smell of
  

  petroleum was that on his last voyage from Kerynia
  

  in November he carried a quantitiy of crushed olive-
  

  seed (pyrrina?), and that this was the cause of the
  

  smell. Against this, the visiting officer is
  

  convinced that the smell was that of petroleum
  

  (which is very different thing!) that it ws very
  

  strong and that it was quite recent and also that
  

  the same was impregnated with it. The smell of
  

  olive-oil would certainly have evaporated since
  

  November last.
  

  Enquiries are now being made at Rhodes as
  

  to where the sand-ballast was bought, and whether by
  

  any chance it could have been impregnated with
  

  petroleum before it was purchased by Michel Sava.
  

  
  

  The whole case really hangs on the
  

  petroleum question, and it is a great pity that the
  

  schooner had to be sunk, the evidence thereby being
  

  destroyed.
  

  Admiral Moreau wishes me to point out to
  

  you that in the absence of any British ships of war
  

  on the Cyprus coast he regards his work in Cyprus
  

  territorial waters as work done in the name of the
  

  British Admiralty, his ships being lent for the
  

                                                                                   purpose
  

  
  

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