MOROCCAN BANDITS.
PRISONERS ILL-TREATED. (BY CABLI—PRISS ABBOCUTIO* -COPYRIGHT), (AUBTBALIAX AND N.Z. CABLC ASSOCIATION.) (Received November Bth, 7.30 p.m.) PARIS, November 7. Negotiations for the release of the Steeg's party are reported -to have broken down. The brigands are treating the prisoners severely in-order to bring pressure on the French t whose refusal to accept their terms is musing dissatisfaction and unrest among the neighbouring tribes, who, perhaps, are the most arrogant and least civilised of any in Morocco. [Moroccan tribesmen in the neighbourhood of the Atlas mountains kidnapped a» shooting party consisting of the nephew of the French President, General Steeg. the nephew's wife, General Steeg s stepson, and the latter's wife, and are holding them to ransom.]
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 11
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