DESERTER ROBBERS ON THE BATTLEFIELDS
ROUNDED UP IN DUG-OUT LAIRS.
Paris, October 18. Recently a South African negro named Albers, who had previously served in a British labour corps, was court-mur-tialled and shot at Lille. Investigations proved that he was tho head of a formidable gang of deserters who had been carrying out, a campaign of terrorism on the old battlefields, plundering and murdering. The gang operated on the Somnio and then near Passehendaele, where its victims' included threo women who were visiting the graves of the fallen. A large force of military police was engaged and tracked the desperados to their lairs—well-provisioned dugouts. The gang murdered the members of iv household of a farmer at Flctres, and later killed two other farmers and rilled their houses. Albers quarrelled with an accomplice, Stevens, over tho distribution of the booty, and ,hc killed Stevens Three other accomplices were executed in Belgium, and a fourth was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude.—'"The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 22, 21 October 1919, Page 7
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161DESERTER ROBBERS ON THE BATTLEFIELDS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 22, 21 October 1919, Page 7
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