BATTLEFIELD OUTLAWS.
FRENCH FARMERS MURDERED NEGRO ARMY DESERTERS. I Times. PARIS, Oct. 19. Recently a' South African negro ' named Albers, who previously served in the British Labour Corps, was court-martialled and shot at Lille. Investigations proved that he was the head of a formidable gang of deserters who have been
terrorising the old battlefields, plundering and murdering. The gang operated on the Sorame, and then near Passchendaele, where their victims included three women who were visiting graves of their fallen relatives. A large force of military police was engaged and tracked the desperadoes to their lairs, which consisted of well-provisioned dugouts. The gang murdered the household of a farmer at Fletres and later killed two other farmers and rifled ' their houses. Albers quarrelled ' with an accomplice named Stevens over the distribution of the booty and killed Stevens. Three other accomplices were executed in Belgium, i and a fourth sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17296, 21 October 1919, Page 7
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