BANDITS BESIEGED IN MONASTIR
HEAVY LOSSES AMONG c SOLDIERS.
- (OSIIBB FIBSS ASSOCIATES .—COPMIBBT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 4th April. Ihe , Athens correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that amazing scenes were-witnessed at ■ Monastir, following the discovery of. five Albanian bandits disguised as women. After a sunning fight with soldiers, the banrlits took refuge in a house, from-which they attacked the soldiers with bombs and revolvers. The house was then besieged and riddled with machine-gun" bullets till a^ white flag was hoisted. The commanoer, with an aide-de-camp, went to the house. The bandits beheaded both and exhibited the heads on broomsticks from the windows. Tha soldiers then vainly stormed the house, which ' was finally set five to. Two of the desperadoes were burned alive; the others escaped. Fourteen of the attacking force were killed and twenty wounded. The bandits' bombs destroyed five houses.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 83, 7 April 1924, Page 7
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