Διενέργεια έρευνας της Αγγλικής Κυβέρνησης για την Αποφυλάκιση του Πλοίαρχου Μιχαήλ Σάββα Κελέσιη (Καπετάν Μίχαλος), item 7

• October 28, 2018 18:05:33 Sarika Jain

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  MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OFFICE.
  

  HEADQUARTERS, FORT SAID.
  

  17. 2. 16.
  

  To H. E. The High Commissioner
  

  Cyprus.
  

  Re Schooner "Evagelista".
  

  Your Excellency
  

  
  

  I am directed by Vice-Admiral Moreau
  

  commanding the Third French Squadron to inform you
  

  that enquiries are still being made into this case,
  

  and to lay before you such facts as are already
  

  established in order that you may be an courant
  

  with the affairs.
  

  
  

  On the afternoon of Feb. 6, the cruiser
  

  Pothuaw sighted the Evangelsita, which was at anchor
  

  at some distance from Paphos - not in the roadstead.
  

  The boarding officer ascertained that the papers
  

  were Turkish, that the passports of the captain and
  

  crew were those of Ottoman subjects: the boat had
  

  on board 40 sacks of soap. and for the rest was in
  

  sand ballast. There were found on board two Mauser
  

  rifles (old type) a case of ammunition, and various
  

  packets of cartridges hidden. The sand in the hold
  

  was strongly impregnated with petroleum and as the
  

  boat was making water and the pumps constantly in
  

  use (i. e. as the sand was being steadily cleaned)
  

  the officer was convinced that the petroleum had
  

  been very recently spilled in the hold. As it is
  

  now an ascertained fact that submarines visit, if
  

  they are not based on, certain points on the S. W.
  

  coast of Cyprus, the officer judged that the
  

                                                                         Evagelista
  

  
  

  
  

• October 28, 2018 18:04:03 Sarika Jain

  81
  

  COPY.
  

  MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OFFICE.
  

  HEADQUARTERS, FORT SAID.
  

  17. 2. 16.
  

  To H. E. The High Commissioner
  

  Cyprus.
  

  Re Schooner "Evagelista".
  

  Your Excellency
  

  
  

  I am directed by Vie-Admiral Moreau
  

  commanding the Third French Squadron to inform you
  

  that enquiries are still being made into this case,
  

  and to lay before you such facts as are already
  

  established in order that you may be an courant
  

  with the affairs.
  

  
  

  On the afternoon of Feb. 6, the cruiser
  

  Pothuaw sighted the Evangelsita, which was at anchor
  

  at some distance from Paphos - not in the roadstead.
  

  The boarding officer ascertained that the papers
  

  were Turkish, that the passports of the captain and
  

  crew were those of Ottoman subjects: the boat had
  

  on board 40 sacks of soap. ad for the rest was in
  

  sand ballast. There were found on board two Mauser
  

  rifles (old type) a case of ammunition, and various
  

  packets of cartridges hidden. The sand in the hold
  

  was strongly impregnated with petroleum and as the
  

  boat was making water and the pumps constantly in
  

  use (i. e. as the sand was being steadily cleaned)
  

  the officer was convinced that the petroleum had
  

  been very recently spilled in the hold. As it is
  

  now an ascertained fact that submarines visit, if
  

  they are not based on, certain points on the S. W.
  

  coast of Cyprus, the officer judged that the
  

                                                                         Evagelista
  

  
  

  
  

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