BANDITRY IN SICILY
MEASURES DO NOT HAVE MUCH EFFECT
Recd. 10 p.m. London Jan. 29. Elaborate military operations being conducted against separatist bandits in Sicily do not appear to be having a decisive effect, says “The Times" Rome correspondent Shooting continues nightly in the bills between Palermo and Trapani Bandits a few nights ago held up a train and robbed the passengers of money and valuables, and also attempted to seize the Palermo wireless station. The chief bandit in the Palermo district appears to be Builiani, who threatens to rival the Neapolitan, Lamarca, in popularity. He treated the women in the train holdup with great gallantry, and in an interview with an Italian journalist, who was a passenger on the train, he showed himself a person of some education
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 24, 30 January 1946, Page 5
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