SHARP BATTLE
BANDITS AND SOLDIERRS
AMAZING SCENES AT MONASTIC
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, April 4
The Daily Express Athens correspondent states that amazing scenes were witnessed at Monastic following the discovery of five Albanian bandits disguised as women. After a running fight with soldiers (lie bandits took refuge in a house, from which they attacked the soldiers with bombs and revolvers. The house was then besieged and riddled with machine gun bullets till the white flag was hoisted.
Tho commander with his aide de camp went to the house. The bandits beheaded both and exhibited their beads on broomsticks from windows. The soldiers then vainly stormed the house, which finally was set on fire. Two desperadoes were burned alive and the others escaped. Fourteen the attacking force were killed and twenty wound ed. The bandits’ bombs destroyed five houses.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 April 1924, Page 5
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144SHARP BATTLE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 April 1924, Page 5
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