Dutch policemen captured notorious Captain Raymond (“Turk”) Westerling, international buccaneer and soldier of misfortune. But there were no grounds for holding him and was freed.

A score of Dutch policemen surrounded a baronial house near Amsterdam before dawn one day last week, while seven others, led by Amsterdam Police Chief Jeremias Posthuma, knocked on the front door. The master of the manor, Count van Rechteren Limpurg, appeared. “We have come for Westerling,” announced Chief Posthuma…