DESPERADOES AT BAY.
BESIEGED AT MONASTIB, SEVERAL ATTACKERS KILLED, BOMBS WREAK DESTRUCTION' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. . ATHENS. April 4. Amazing scenes occurred* a Hooa/stn' as a sequel to ths discovery of five Albanian bandits, who -were, disguised an women. After a running fight with soldiers tW» (bandits sought refuge in a house, from the shelter of which they attacked the troops with bonbs and revolver".. The house was then besieged .and riddled with machine-gun ballots till the white flag was hoisted. . Deceived by this, signal of surrender a military commander, accompanied by an aide-de-camp, went to the house. The bandits captured and beheaded both men, whose heads they impaled on broomsticks 'and threw out of the windows. , The soldiers then vainly stormed; the house, which was finally set afire. ' Two of the desperadoes ' were burned alive, but the others escaped. Thirty of the attacking • force were killed' or wounded. The bandits' - bombs destroyed five houses.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18678, 7 April 1924, Page 9
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160DESPERADOES AT BAY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18678, 7 April 1924, Page 9
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