MONASTERY LOOTED.
DISGUISED BANDITS THRASH MONKS. VIENNA, August 6. Twelve men wearing the uniform of Rumanian officers arrived at a monastery at Fontana Alba, in Bukovina, and were entertained at a banquet. Immediately the feast Mas over they drew revolvers and ordered the terrified abbot and the monks to go down to the cells. They were securely bound and the guests proceeded to load the monastery carts with money, plate, vestments, and everything worth looting. Before vanishing with an imposing procession of carts they stripped rind brutally flogged the monks, who cursed them. The guests explained that the uniforms were stolen and that they were professional bandits.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17345, 27 September 1924, Page 17
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