FUTURE EPIRUS
DARING DESERTERS' RASH ADVENTURE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, ATHENS, June 5. One hundred and riinety Euxonos, with their officers, decided to assist their coreligionists in Epirus. Leaving their i-ifies in the barracks to allay suspicion, they embarked -in a stea.mea: as ordinary passengers, and when at sea overawed the crew and ordered the captain to proceed direct to Prebesa. The. authorities, apprised of the desertion, sent two destroyers to chase the men. They came abreast of tho steamer, which they ordered to follow them. The Euxont« refused, and a destroyer thereupon lay across the bows of the steamer. The Euxones took tho wheelcrashed into the destroyer amidships, and then beached the vessel. The deserters disembarked, and started to march across country, but were finally persuaded to surrender, and are now immured in adjacent forts.
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Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 6
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