CAPTURED BY MOORS.
BRITAIN WILL NOT PAY RANSOM. LONDON, July 3. Mi Clark Kennedy's captors, have been informed that Great Britain will not pay a penny ransom.
Mr Kennedy was captured near Tangier last month by brigands, who | demanded a heavy ransom. The British Government a few months ago intimated that it did not intend to pay ransom for British subjects captured by brigands in Morocco. Th's step was evidently the outcome of the heavy ransom which the British Government recently found it necessary to pay to the notorious Eaisuli to secure the release of Kaid Sir Harry Mac Lean, whom Raisuli had taken prisoner some months previously. In order to secure the release of Kaid Mac Lean, the.British Legation deposited £20,000 in the bank, and of this amount £5,000 was to be paid at once, and the remaining £15,000 was to lie at interest for five years, yielding interest to Raisuli to the extent of about £SO a month.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9134, 6 July 1908, Page 5
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160CAPTURED BY MOORS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9134, 6 July 1908, Page 5
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