K.O. FOR BANDITS
4000 MILE MOTOR DRIVE
BAGDAD, 4th October. Mr James Williams, a Welshman employed in the Egyptian Education Department, motored from London in a geven horse-power Austin via Vienna, Constantinople, Alexandretta, and Beyrout. The only unusual incident in the 4000mile journey was being held up by three Turkish brigands in, Asia Minor. They endeavoured to steal a spade with which he frequently dug the car out of sand and mud. Mr Williams laid out two with a, light and left, and then got a half-Nel-son on to the other, and recovered the spade. He completed the brigands' discomfiture by rebuking them. All' Williams is returning through. Jerusalem, recrossing 500 miles of the Syrian desert.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1928, Page 2
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116K.O. FOR BANDITS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1928, Page 2
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