DARING JEWEL ROBBERY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1912, Page 15

DARING JEWEL ROBBERY

A daring jewel robbery took place on a Sunday night at Malpas Lodge, Bournemouth, England, tho residence of Lady Marcia Cholmondeley, which is situated on a quiet spot on West Cliff. About 9 o'clock Lady Marcia, who ia eighty-one years of age, retired for the night, but left her room again to bid good-night to Mies Tarleton, a Jady who resides with her. On returning a little latei^ che found tho door locked on the jnside, and when entry was obtained tho room was disco /ered to havo been ransacked and valuable jeweln stolen. The thief had climbed a trellie and entered by the window of au adjoining < room. Lady Marcia Cholmondeley is tho daughter of the third Mavquis of Cholmnndoley and aunt of tho , present Marquis.

" MAJOR-GENERAL" ROOSEVELT • — i — NOT SATISFIED WITH THE MERE TITLE OF COLONEL. There is (remarks the San Francisco* Chronicle) inherent probability in the story which comes from New York to tho effect that Colonel Roosevelt, at the time he aeked President Taft to appoint him to head a legiment of cavalry to invade Mexico, requested that the President make him a Major-General. Of course, Mr. Taft could not legally dub the Colonel a Major-General, and he co replied to the former President. But Mr. Roosevelt, who, if he had been arriving in America 'for the first time a couple of months ago,- and had been caught red-handed with his Columbus speech in his pockot, would have come under the recent ruling of Judge Hanford of Seattle, that he was not a believer in the Constitution, did not see what the question of legality had to do with the matter, and so, the New York story goes, he became at once antagonised to tho President. It appears, if the report is correct, that Mr. Roosevelt's deems to lead a cavalry regiment into Mexico wa6 because he believed this country was about to face- trouble with Japan over Magdalena. Bay. Here again the reckless unbalanced judgment of the Colonel was shown. For, as Mr. Taft replied, there was not the slightest danger of friction with the Japanese. So far as the Government of Japan hae been concerned, its correct attitude haa been reflected in its effective enforcement of the unofficial emigration agreement with this country, whereby Japanese coolio iminiirrati'on to the Pacific Coast has been entirely shut off. Japan is not looking for trouble with the United States, but it sometimes seems as though certain American public men t wero looking for trouble with Japan. The importance of the present report with regard to Colonel Roosevelt, however, is that it seems at last to explain his resentment against President Taft. The people of the country have long wondered why the former President turned so suddenly and so bitterly against the man ho once praised so highly. Various attempted explanations have been "put forward. It was said, for instance, that when Mr. Roosevelt set out for Africa, President Taft told him thstt he owed everything to hit* brother, Charles P. Taft, and to Mr. Roosevelt The latter, it wae reported, resented being mentioned only in second place This explanation, however, lost force in view of the fact that mau\ <l Dear Will " and ''Dear Theodore" letters passed between the two subsequent to that date. But to refuse to make the Colonel a Major-General was quite another matter. It may have had much to do with many of the things that Mr. Roosevelt has been saying the last month or more.