RAID ON CONVOY

Southland Times, Issue 20642, 14 November 1928, Page 5

RAID ON CONVOY

AMBUSHED BY BANDITS. DRIVER’S COOL COURAGE. formed by the bandits, with the result Details of the attack on the Nairn convoy on the 10th inst are now to hand. The convoy with the overland mail started from here on the 9th inst, and was held up early the next morning at a point 10 miles on the Iraq side of the Syrian frontier. The Nairn cars carrying the Iraq mail were travelling some miles behind a local convoy. It appears that the local convoy was first stopped by bandits, who opened fire on it, killing one man and wounding two others—all Mohammedans. Then the car carrying the mail van ran into an ambush formed by the bandits, with the resulit that the latter were able to make off with both car and mail. A big six-wheeler passenger car was in the convoy, but the British driver of the car turned his vehicle sharply on a bullet hitting his headlight, and making a wide circle in the desert, drove safely back with his passengers to the Rutbah post, when the police set out in a vain pursuit of the raiders. No one here believes this affair has the slightest connection with the failure of the Jidda conference, as the bandits are known to belong to a gang of miscreants who raided the overland convoy six months ago.