HUMAN JACKALS.
PLUNDER AND MURDER.
REIGN OP TERROR. ON BATTLEFIELDS. By Telegraph—Pres* Association—Copyright United Service. (Received October 20, 8.45 a-m.) . PARIS, October 18. Recently a South African negro named Albers, who was previously serving in tho British Labour Corps, was court-martialled and shot at Lille. Investigations proved tlmt ho was the Head of a formidable gang of deserters who had been terrorising the old battlefields, plundering and murdering. Tho gang operated on tho Somme, then near Passohondaele, where tho victims included three women who were visiting the graves of the fallen. A largo force of military police was engaged, and tracked tho desperadoes to their lairs, which consisted of wellprovisioned dugonts. The gang murdered the household of a farmer at Fletrcs, and later killed two other farmers and rifled their houses. Albers quarrelled with an accomplice named Stevens over the distribution of the. booty and killed him. Throe oilier accomplices were executed iii Belgium, and a fourth sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12775, 20 October 1919, Page 7
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