ALGERIAN TRIBESMEN
Kill Three French Officers. TELEPHONE WIRES CUT. (Times Cable.) LONDON, December 11. “Thc Times’s” Paris correspondent says that three French officers, Colonel Claverie, Captain Pasquet, and Captain Debesse, with four men, on a tour of inspection, in three motors, when 35 miles south of Colomb Le Char, Algeria, were suddenly attacked by tribesmen. The three officers wer-3 killed and tw*o men were wounded, while one is missing.
The tribesmen ent the telephone ivircs, causing a delay of two days in Lhe report reaching the authorities. An armed force was immediately •ent.
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Grey River Argus, 13 December 1928, Page 5
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