MAIL WAGON ROBBERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 7

MAIL WAGON ROBBERY.

— I TOTAL LOSS £SO,QOO. DISCUSSION BY U.S. CABINET. I WASHINGTON, October 17. j The mail wagon robbery at Elizabeth I City was the chief subject of discussion at a mooting of Cabinet, and tbe total i loss" was stated to have been £GO.OOO. ! The President. Mr. Calvin Coolidge, stated that the practice of sending | armed marines with valuable mails may \ be resumed. The Postmaster-General states: "If it [ takes the Army and Navy to do it the j United States mails must be protected and the lives of tbe postal employees safeguarded. I think it should be made a capital offence to attack mails with , arms, and 1 propose to recommend Con- ! gross that legislation be passed to that effect. Any man who does it has a murderous intent, and the world is a good deal better off without him. "There is not another country on the globe where such things are more pre- i valent to-day than in our own. Whole- i sale hangings might go further than j anything el<e to curb the enthusiasm of j highwaymen.'' I GETS HIS OWN BACK. | ! ALLOWANCES TO THE KAISER. FIGHTS IN GERMAN DIET. { ■ I BERUN, October 17. A strong force of detectives and a police guard did not prevent the Socialists starting a free fight in the Diet when the Hohen/.ollern Compensation Bill reached the third reading, which was carried by 25S votes to 37. After a vote of censure, moved by the Socialists, had been defeated, the demonstrators threw their documents on tbe floor and engaged in bouts of fisticuffs with each other. The Communists threatened the President, and six were ejected. In the course of the debate one Democrat member observed that there seemed to be no danger of the ex-Kaiser returning to Prussia, as he was obviously more comfortable in Holland than be would be in Prussia under a Socialist Minister of Interior. The Minister of Finance repeated his assurances that the law was adequate to prevent the return of Wilhclm. The bill having been carried the exKaiser will get the castle at Homburg and he and family will in addition receive real and movable e-tate estimated to be worth £4.600.000. compared with £0.300.(1011 under last year's rejected bargain. FRANCE AND DEBTS. M. CAILLAUXS PROPOSALS. I Received 1.30 p.m.i PARIS, October 17. The French Radical Congress passed a resolution in favour of the ratification of debts agreement, piovlded France did not pay more than she received from Germany. M. Caillaux advocated an all-round wiping of the slate, as any transfer of the wealth of nations is impossible except by means of exports. NEW STAMP ISSUE. CELEBRATED GERMANS. iltc-oived 1.00 p.m.; BERLIN, October 17. Oermany officially announces the issue of a new series of postage stamps decorated with the heads of celebrated Germans—(Soothe. Schiller and Beethoven. The decision to use the head of Frederick the Great on the penny stamp, which is the most used value, is criti' cised in the Republican Press i