REIGN OF TERROR.
PLUNDER ON THE BATTLEFIELDS. By Teleeraph.—l>:oss Ai,sn.—Copyright. Paris, October 18. Recently a South African negro, Albers, who had previously served in the British Labor Corps, was court-mar-tialled and shot at Lille. Investigations proved he was the head of a formidable gang ok deserters, who had' been maintaining a reign of terror on the battlefields, plundering and murdering. The gang operated on Itho Somme, then near Passchendaele, where the victims included three women who were visiting the graves of the fallen. A large force of military police were engaged and tracked the desperadoes to their lairs, which consisted of wellprovisioned dug-outs. The gang murdered the household of a farmer at Pl'etre? and later killed l two other farmers and rifled their houses. Albers quarrelled with an accomplice, Stevens, over the distribution of booty, and killed Stevens. Three other accomplices wefe executed in Belgium and tho fourth sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude.—Times Service. >
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1919, Page 5
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155REIGN OF TERROR. Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1919, Page 5
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