BRUTAL BANDITS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 241, 10 September 1932, Page 7

BRUTAL BANDITS

OPERATIONS IN NICARAGUA.

SEVERAL BRITONS MURDERED.

GOVERNMENT TERRORISED

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.)

Received September 10, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 9,

The Mail says that Britain is framing a strong note to Nicaragua claiming heavy compensation for the dependents of 11 Britons who have been brutally murdered in Nicaragua since April, 1931, by bandits whose chief, Sandino, seems to have terrorised the Government, which has not attempted to punish the murderers. The most recent murders are those of Mr li. Cooke and three Hislop brothers, the managers of fruit farms. Each was tied to a tree and slowly cut to pieces. The methods of Sandino’s bandits wero unequalled even by the Chinese torturers centuries ago. The victims had to listen.while the bandits explained what was going to happen to them.

Cable messages received during April, 1931, stated that President Hoover had publicly characterised Sandino, the bandit leader, as having “placed himself outside the civilised pale by his cold-blooded murders.” He was confident that the Nicaraguan Guardia Naeionale, which was making a determined drive on the bandits, would bring him to justice. The United States Government asserted that the Nicaraguan difficulties were not. revolutionary, but simply due to the activities of murderous bandits.

BANDITS IN MANCHURIA

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 8. The British Consul-General at Mukden is in touch with the local authorities, who are taking all possible steps to overtake the bandits and secure the release of two British subjects who were kidnapped by them at Newchang yesterday. The victims are Mrs Pawley, daughter of Dr. Phillips, and Charles Cock ran, son of Major-General Sir Charles Cockran. They were out riding with Duncan Macintosh, and were attended by two Chinese grooms when the party were surrounded and captured. Mr Macintosh, who, like Mr Cockran, is an employee of tho Asiatic Petroleum. Company at Newchang, succeeded in escaping. He gave tho alarm, and the pursuit was at once taken up.