ARMED BANDITS
& v SEIZE EMERALD MINE. A CLASH COMING. (United Presa Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, May 26. A message from Bogata, Colubia, states: Rifle-armed bandits, reported to niunbtir:'one asserting themselvf sRo.. nutrfßfl&Sf foltf -' hundred, seized Cojvsimez' i'lfiShi, Clfvhichr produces many of the world’s finest emeralds. They are firmly entrenched, and they have besieged the garrison, in which naif are on guard while the others w(frk the' rich deposits. •' Goverft'ment trciopfr and police are being rushed to th# ’st'e'he and a clash is momentarily expected. 'Hie bandits sent a communication to the troops saying, “We are ready to kill in case we are attacked.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1930, Page 3
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