CREEK BRIGANDAGE.
CAPTIVES RELEASED
(Times Cables). LONDON, Aug. 13. Tho Athens correspondent of. the Times states that after the, receipt of the ransom the brigands who captured a party of Parliamentary candidates a few days ago released their captives. M. Melas, after ten hours’ march through the forest, reached Yannina. He declared that ho had been treated with the utmost savagery. He was hound hand and foot for four days.
Five brigands, despito the fact that there was a police post two miles away, ambushed amidst the hairpin bends of the Yannina Road a motor car conveying the Progressive Party’s candidates, MM. Milonas, Melas and Chassiotis, ex-doputics, also M. Melas, secretary. They were returning from an electioneering tour of adjacent villages. Tho victims were taken to the mountains, but later tho brigands roleased M. Chassiotis and tho secretary, demanding a ransom of £13,000 for tho remaining two and warning them that there would bo no mercy if tho authorities were informed. Apparently the ransom will be paid beforo tho brigands aro pursued. Tho Premier, M. Venizelos, expresses disgust at tho outrage. Ho contends that brigandage, which ho promises to extirpate, is a legacy from the former lax Government.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 219, 14 August 1928, Page 7
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198CREEK BRIGANDAGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 219, 14 August 1928, Page 7
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