CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS.
ITFTY THOUSAND RANSOM. (Received 8.5 ajn.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 25. The brigands who captured Professor Bichter, the German archaeologist, have been offered £3000 ransom by his friends, bit demand £50,000.
Troops soundly flogged the inhabitants of the surrounding villages in order to learn the brigands' whereabouts, bnt failed to obtain the information.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 176, 26 July 1911, Page 5
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