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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13613, 3 January 1913, Page 7

A. cable message to the Sydney ' 'Sim" states-that a Spanish cattle-breeder of Tuy^, in Spain, made a journey to a market town just across the frontier, and sold four large herds of cattlo, receiving in gold notes a" sum equivalent to £18,000. To take the money to his liome town, he placed it in a cart, and it was guarded hs' forty mounted men armed with rifles. In. a narrow mountain pass close to the border the travellers were suddenly attacked. A hail of bullets swept over the escort > who responded. A desperate fight followed, in which twelve of the defenders of the money were killed and sixteen severely wounded. The remainder fied, and the bandits descended and seized the booty, afterwauds escaping to the hills, again. A force of .cavalry set out in pursuit of the miscreants.