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Robin Hood's Head. Italy's pretext for stirring up trouble with Greece was the murder, some time in the last month, of an Albanian named Daout Hoggia. The Italian press claimed that Hoggia, an irredentist and a "sort of Robin Hood," had been killed by Greeks, who chopped off his head and displayed it as a warning in villages where Albanian minorities live. The Greeks said that Hoggia was a bandit, that he was killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim...
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