TWO SAILORS EXECUTED.
FOR MURDER AND ROBBERY. AN ANTI-MILITARIST DEMONSTRATION. CUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.! (Received Aug. 11, 12.50 a.m.) PARIS. Aug. 10. Two sailors have been executed at Toulon rifle i-ange for stabbing a .comrade forty-three times at Ajaccio in January, and stealing three half-pence. The murderers were chained to stakes and their eyes were bandaged, the presence of thousands of people requiring three thousand soldiers and sailors to keep back the crowd. When the order to fire was given the anti-militarists in the crowd attempted a demonstration., but the gendarmes intervened and violent scuffles followed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3293, 11 August 1911, Page 5
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95TWO SAILORS EXECUTED. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3293, 11 August 1911, Page 5
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