BANDIT IN TURKEY
FORMER ANZAC OFFICER. STRANGE STORY RELATED. London, Jan. 1. A man known as the Giaour, and said to be a former Anzac lieutenant, who, after the evacuation of Gallipoli, was found wandering about suffering from shell-shock, has become the bandit king of Turkey. Allowed freedom because _ of the Eastern awe of those “stricken of God,” the man recovered and took to the hills, where at first he practised his banditry alone, always masked and heavily armed. Then he attracted to himself a band of Turkish ex-soldiers, and his notoriety grew. He was daring, resourceful, elusive. For eight years the police have tried to catch him. Now the President of Turkey has ordered that he must be laid by the heels. At the betrothal feast of an Angora beauty whose parents are friends of Mustapha Kemal, the bandit abducted the bride, after robbing the men and dancing with the girls. Peasants declare that the lady is now a willing captive.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1934, Page 9
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