GREED FOR GOLF.
FIERCE FRONTIER FIGHT. LONDON, December 17. A Spanish cattle-breeder of Tuy, in Spain, made a journey to a market town just a-CTosis the frontier, and sold four large herds of cattle, receiving in gold and notes a sum equivalent to f 18,000. To take the money to his. home town he placed it in a cart, and it was guarded by 40 men armed with rifles. In a narrow mountain pass close to the border the travellers were suddenly attacked. A hail of bullets swept over the escort, who responded. A desperate figiht followed, in which twelve of the defenders of ithe money were killed and sixteen severely wounded. The remainder fled, -and the bandits descended and seized the booty, aitexwarde escaping $a> the hills again. A force of cavalry is out in pursuit of the miscreants.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 306, 23 December 1912, Page 2
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140GREED FOR GOLF. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 306, 23 December 1912, Page 2
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