SAVAGEIY TREATED.
POLITICIANS CAPTURED BY
BANDITS
RELEASED WHEN RANSOM PAID
• United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (“Times** Cables.) LONDON, Aug. 13. After the receipt of the ransom they demanded the five brigands released the captives they made last vreek when, taking advantage of a bridge amid the hairpin bends of the Yannina Road, they ambushed a motor car containing the Progressive Partv’s candidates, AIM. Milonas, Mela® and Chassiatis. deputies, and M. Melas, the party’s secretary. The politicians were returning from an electioneering tour of adjacent villages. Despite the police post two. miles awav, the brigands presented rifle® at the party. They took their victims to the mountains and released’ AI. Cliassiatis and the secretary, demanding a ransom of £13.000 for the remaining two, who were warned there would lie no mercy if the authorities were informed. After a. 10 hours’ march through the forest AT. Mein® reached Yannina, demoralised. Tie declared they were treated with the utmost savagery, nnd were hound hand and foot for four days.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 August 1928, Page 5
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168SAVAGEIY TREATED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 August 1928, Page 5
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