Broadcast: 1939

Starring: John Holbrook

Added: Aug 29 2008

Recently the words Suicide Ships have appeared in public print. It is a sailors term for freighters carrying what appears to be harmless cargo yet often found to be bales and boxes bearing commercial labels but concealing smuggled ammunitions and arms. When as frequently happens such criminally dangerous cargoes catches fire the simplest thing is to accuse the Dockers and seamen in foreign ports of planting explosive inferno machine. Such is the background of this story, which John Holbrook will introduce…