FOREIGN OFFICE KEYS
WHITEHALL PERTURBED
VITAL TO DIPLOMACY
United Tress Association—By Electric Tde-
eraph—Copyright. (Eeceivea 18th September, noon.)
LONDON, 17th September.
Whitehall is most perturbed over the robbery at Geneva. Very fow details are disclosed beyond the confirmation of the actual theft of the Foreign Office keys, but clearly the incident borders on the sensational. International detectives are making every effort to recover the keys, which.were of the kind that diplomats never release from their possession, and always have securely fastened to their per-
It was reported from Geneva that Mr. Noel Baker, M.P., and his wife were awakened by an intruder in their hotel bedroom. They found a cat burglar ransacking the place. The man escaped after threatening Mr. Baker with a revolver. It is understood that the intruder secured certain keys of dispatch boxes resembling those used for the carriage of Foreign Office confidential documents.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 9
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