GENEVA ROBBERY

Evening Star, Issue 20592, 18 September 1930, Page 10

GENEVA ROBBERY

K 0 ORDINARY BURGLAR CONSTERNATION AT WHITEHALL ' Pres» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright# -uONDON, September 17. (Received September 18, at 1 p.m.) Whitehall is most perturbed over the Baker robbery at Geneva. The fewest' details are disclosed beyond Confirmation of the actual theft of keys, but the incident borders on a' sensational international crime. The detectives are making every effort to recover the keys, which were of a kind, that diplomats never release from! their possession and always'have securely fastened to their persons. [A previous message statedlt is reported from Geneva that Mr-NOel Baker, a member of the British House of Commons, and his rife -were awakened by an intruder in their-bed-room at their Imtel. 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 understood that the burglar secured certain kevs of despatch boxes resembling those used for the carriage of Foreign Office con' ’ential documents.]