AMBUSHED BY BRIGANDS
GREEK POLITICIANS HEAVY RANSOM WANTED (United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright) Times Cable. LONDON, Sunday. The Athens correspondent of “The Times” says five brigands, taking advantage of a bridge amid hairpin bends on the Tannins Road, ambushed a motor-car. The occupants were three of the Progressive Party’s candidates, MM. Milonas, Melas and Chassiotis, former deputies: also M. Melas’s secretary. They were returning from an electioneering tour in the adjacent villages. In spite of the fact that tliere was a police post two miles away the brigands presented rifles at the victims and captLired them. They then took them to the mountains. M. Chassiotis and his secretary were released, the brigands demanding a ransom of £13,000 for the other twp men. They warned them that no mercy would be shown the prisoners if the released men informed the authorities. Apparently the ransom will be paid before the brigands are pursued. The Premier, M. Venizelos, expresses disgust at the outrage, tout contends that brigandage, which he promises to extirpate, is a legacy from the former lax Government.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 426, 7 August 1928, Page 9
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175AMBUSHED BY BRIGANDS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 426, 7 August 1928, Page 9
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