FRENCH AIRMEN.
Arab Chief Asks For Colossal
Ransom.
PRICE HAGGLED DOWN.
(Australian Press Assn.-—United Service.)
PARIS, October 19.
"The Governor-General of French West Africa, Carde, had an interview at Villa Cisneros, in the Spanish territory of Rio de Oro, with the Arab chief, who holds as prisoners the French airmen, MM. Reine and Serre.
The chief, who was wearing the shoes and leggings of one of his captives, demanded 1,000,000 pesetas as ransom for each man, and. camels and rifles, and also the release of all the Arab prisoners in the French protectorate of Mauritania, Senegal, and French Guinea. The Arab's demands were whittled down, and eventually a bargain wan struck for the release of the airmen in exchange for nine Arab prisoners.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 9
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