OFFICERS MASSACRED
FRENCHMEN IN ALGERIA iTimes Cables.) (Received Dec. 13, 10 a.m.J LONDON, Dec. 11. The Paris correspondent of the Times say throe French officers, Colonel Cl'averie, Captain Pasquet,. and Captain Debesse. with four men, were on a tour of inspection in three motor-cars. When 35 miles south of Colomb le Char, Algeria, they were suddenly attacked uy tribesmen. The three officers were killed, and two men wounded, and one is missing. Tribesmen cut the telephone wires, causing a delay of two days in'a report reaching the authorities. An armed force was immediately sent out.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16826, 13 December 1928, Page 7
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