PALACE ROBBED.
HAUL OF £500,000. 81, CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT - . LONDON, . June 30. The _ Paris correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that messages from Lisbpn state that the famous palace the 'l!*a- \ icosa, the summer residence ,of the King of; Portugal, which belongs to ex-Iving ])lanoel, has been ransacked by burglars, who took booty estimated to he worth £500,000, including a massive silver .dinner service, priceless tapestries, ancient gold, vases, arid pictures by old masters.
■ Don Carlos w;as staying there/wdien he signed the decree deporting the leaders of the Portuguese. Republicans. Dropping his pen, he said: “I feel I have; just signed the • sentence of my death.” .Two days later the- King and his eldest son were murdered at Lisbon, I
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 July 1924, Page 7
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