THEFT OF KEYS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 19 September 1930, Page 11

THEFT OF KEYS.

GREAT IMPORTANCE TO DIPLOMATS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—B? • BI.ECTBIO TELEGRAPH—COPTMOHT.) LONDON, September 17. Whitehall is most perturbed over the Baker robbery at Geneva. Very few details have been disclosed, beyond confirmation of the actual theft of the keys, but the incident borders on a sensational international crime. Detectives are making every effort to recover the keys, which were of the kind that diplomats never release irom their possession and always have Recurely fastened to their person. [Jt was reported from Geneva that Mr P. J. Noel Baker, Labour member or the House of Commons for Coventry (attending the League of Nations meetings), and his wife were awakened by an intruder in their bedroom at the hotel. They found a "cat" burglar ransacking the place. The intruder escaped after threatening Mr Baker with a revolver. The affair is enveloped in secrecy, but it is stated that the burglar secured certain keys of dispatch boxes resembling those used for the carriage of Foroigu Office confidential documents.]