Show r- r AOS SPUR DRIVE m AGAINST UNU ITS 1 lends d i ds of Corsican Outlaws Burn jurn Trait Traitors rs Betray P ft Them fo to French Frenchh f h P PAUL UL f Bf By y L Press Prell Correspondent AJACCIO Corsica Nov 20 A 20 A Aice on the heads of i ice of of leaders of Corsica today un un- J to the bandits and v r i d' d traitors French police lin in th their ir drive cri crush nr h outlawry iren Even r relatives of such bandit chief chief- Andre Spada Caviglio Torre i ai iSIS s is ld Bomea joined join d in the offensive as ast asI ast reward offer broke down the t I national JO loyalty ty among o g outlaws outlaYs Hundreds of natives se searched the sh of the mountains some wild hall dogs to aid d hunt liter After 10 days of effort police arc are the opinion that it W Jq sake 15 t mo the French army deployed In in skir- skir I of the out- out ish h line to catch all Ii n. n The he latter have the advantage ge i r knowing wing the hinterland hinterland all the out ling places in m the tangled un- un brUsh and the caves which have haveE used by bandits for centuries SQ E Furthermore the ne gunmen who berto played lone lono nc wolf oU roles have havened ned forces CE HAD CE-HAD HAD CODE mice once was conducted under unwritten un code of A ban- ban was was not riot a man roan gone wrong but a ai i hooter who wh took to the hills to toak eak reak ak vengeance on a rival family vendetta which had come down do I pugh routh generations Several years ago however the Bandits dropped family wars and joined in extortion They sent threatening threat threat- threatening ening letters to woodcutters farmers and industrialists demanding money When the money was not sent the they burned and destroyed One of ot the most dangerous of these bandit gangs was that led by Joseph Bartoli Bartoll who recruited a former rural policeman Bornea Bornes to do his writing since Bartoli himself was illiterate Their toll in one year was estimated at francs This gang came cameo cameto io to o its end a week before the police drive started Bartoli took a walk in the forest with a wealthy lumber dealer M. M SI- SI who sought to compromise when the bandits asked him for francs before he could cut any more wood teased the bandit about his poor handling of a rifle rine SHOOTS snOOTS Bartoli replied by boasting his prowess and shot at a target Simo netti then shot a in half l lengthwise from a 8 distance of 20 paces with the bandits bandit's rifle rine Bartoli reloaded and asked to see sec the trick again instead broached the subject of the extortion and turned Bartolis Bartoli's gun on the bandit killing him Bartolis bandit gang has declared a vendetta on all of the but bitt the police raid of the island backed by machine guns guis and armored cars ls' ls Is 11 co so 50 gre great t that the the islanders believe e the he rule o of the i h rifle is s over ver I |