The Chicago Tribunal, 1926. ALBANIAN GANI DAUTI FIGHTS 50 YUGOSLAV POLICE ON THE ALBANIAN BORDER.
“The bandit challenges 50 Serbian policemen. The 18-year-old Albanian was eventually killed with a hand grenade (Tribune Press Service). BELGRADE, October 20. Duplicated d’Artagnan’s work in Dumas’s Three Musketeers.
An 18-year-old Albanian bandit, Gania Dautovitsch, held 50 Yugoslav policemen at bay for four days and five nights from the inaccessible heights of the Eyrie Shardag Mountains on the Albanian-South Slavic border.
Dauti had his castle in a cave on top of a cliff that drops 1,000 feet to a stream and dominates the neighboring territory. A patrol surrounded the rock, but before the police could fire a shot, the thug cut down five of their number with five carefully aimed shots. This was the beginning of a regular siege, during which the police had to stay under cover most of the time. Whenever one showed his head, the young thug took him out with sure aim.
So persistent was Dautis guard that the police did not even dare to bury the dead. In 110 hours the bandit stood surrounded without a moment’s sleep, being seen with his followers creeping in the night to plunder the dead bodies of his victims. During the night, the gendarmes managed to climb the rock.
On the fifth night the gendarmes succeeded in climbing the rocks and throwing four hand grenades at him. Dauti threw back three, but the fourth exploded wounding him. He tumbled over the ledge into the abyss and was instantly killed.”
“Police found the cave filled with enough food and ammunition to last for weeks”
References
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000273/19261020/149/0008
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k540680k/f5.item.r=Dautovic.zoom
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