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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 14

Film thieves in New fork have been estimated to have stolen £40,000 worth of motion picture films from a dozen or more.producers within a year, and have built up a lucrative business of exporting them. These charges were made public soon after- a prisoner was arraigned in a magistrate's court and held in £1000 bail for the Grand Jury, cm a charge that he had sold a stolen film to a detective, who posed as an exporter. The price paid was £20, it was alleged. Detectives asserted ' they had bought other films from the same man fo» prices ranging from £10, to £20. '

The gaucho, the Argentine plainsman, sprang from the Spaniard and Indian. He was a nomad. His life of frugality, activity, and hazard favoured the fittest and. fiercest. He knew no law save that of might. He was independent, daring, familiar with violence, arid careless of life. Had he through a Spanish parent some Moorish strain, he represented in the pampas his ancestors who had galloped gxs£ th* fUint oi Ar*bL|..