WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 217, 13 September 1930, Page 9

WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP.

Bandits Executed for 25 Slayings. 15 KILLED FOR £6 LOOT. (Received 11:30 "a.m.) LONDON, September 12. At-Murmansk, North Russia, after a long hunt, three bandits were summarily executed for committing 25 murders, including that of a colleague whom they feared would betray them. The gang one day mur&ered;ls people, including a nine-months-old baby, for the sake of loot equalling £6. , On another day they butchered a man and his wife and their Jiree children for the sake of 18/. ,• FOUR ARRESTS. Alleged "Red" Agents Operating In Egypt. TWO WOMEN SECRETARIES. CAIRO, September 12. Two men and two Russian Jewesses, who were acting as their secretaries, all of whom are declared to. be agents of the Third (Communist) International, have been arrested. It is alleged that the men and women have been concerned in the creation of a Bolshevik centre in Egypt, particularly in the selection of Egyptian recruits for training at Moscow. OPENING UP HILL 60. Syndicate for Booming Tourist Traffic.

RELATIVES OF DEAD PROTEST,

LONDON, September 12,

Workmen at Ypres, on behalf of a group of people who are anxious to boom the tourist.traffic, have begun to open up the famous Hill CO, which was the scene of some of the; fiercest lighting in the Great War. They have exposed subterranean galleries which still are full of equipment.

The- project is resented by relatives of British soldiers who were killed and buried on the hill. ... ■