GREAT EVENTS."

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13358, 25 February 1909, Page 6

GREAT EVENTS."

Asked to write down some of th§ ■ great. st events in the. 20th ce-ntur--. 4 ten-year-old bey in Monniouthshir* .school wrote: '•The New Zealand foot. ball team were beaten by Wales; th« Spriiv'-oks were. beaten by Cardifij ilim Webb £ot his cap." , POLICE METHODS IN RUS_l_j -." Sour, time ago one <<f the leadingHue inn diplomatists found' on his r*. - turn homo from a great dinner _ar_-i-.i St. Petersburg that his pocket-book, • containing, thirty thousand roubles, * M missing ironi one-, of the pockets of W overcoat. Deeply chagrined at lag ' loss, he re-;-nested ih«\ 1 ninnxliate js» tendance of the Chief of Police, «fa» as. ured him that no effort shoakj b* spared to bring the- thief to book, a&j that there was no doubt he would sooa b. discovered. To tho d , ij»loTOato_- , > great delight a week had not pbsse<| beiore tli-e- chief restored to him tb» entire sum quite intact, but without the pocketbook, which lie said th# thief had thrown away fo avoid idea. titicatioii. There scorn->d nothing_n-i» with such an explanation, and tj» prince was only too glad to recover hit stolen property. But <i <lay or two later, in putting on the same overcoat. he was surprised 10 find' in a pocket. strangely overlooked before, the i_2 sing jM-cketlKViik, contain ing, untouchotL the thirty thousand roubles, which h« liad really 11. vor lost at all. Tho ujfi* of restoring the supposed stolen money ' to the* prince from th. publio fund*, in the hope of 1 bus winning favour foe ' steal and efficiency, sp.ea.k_ iv_li for tb« -' polico officer's inm-nuity, but preeenU a. curious pliaso of Russiaa official ethics.