MOROCCAN BANDITS
FIGHT WITH POLICE DESPERADOES SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, November 11. Tho Paris correspondent of the ‘Evening News’ reports that a chauffeur named Royart stoic a motor car at Casablanca and drove to Tetraan, picking up cu route two accomplices. The police attempted to intercept them, and a fierce batttlo followed, in which three of tho police were shot dead and four wounded. , Tho desperadoes then systematically visited jewellers’ shops in Tetuan, stole gems worth £20,000, and escaped. Tho police, armed with machine guns, pursued the robbers, and another fight took place on the Franco-Moroc-cau border, lasting two hours, in which all tho three bandits were seriously wounded. The missing gems wore discovered in tho car.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable. THE STEEG PARTY. RANSOM TO BE PAID. PARIS, November 11. (Received November 12, at 10 a.m.) It is reported that the French authorities in Morocco have agreed to pay £5,645 for the release of tho captured Stceg party.—Sydney ‘Sim’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19712, 12 November 1927, Page 5
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163MOROCCAN BANDITS Evening Star, Issue 19712, 12 November 1927, Page 5
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