MEDALS STOLEN
NOTED SOCCER PLAYER'S LOSS, While he and his wife were visiting relatives, burglars broke into the house of George Mills, Chelsea centreforward. of Westwpod Park, Forest Hill, London, and sfole all his medals. Among the medals are a gold one for playing in the England-Ireland match a short while ago, two English League medals, which were presented this season, aud a bronze medal for the < England-Ireland match in 1933. "If the burglars are sportsmen they will return my medals," stated Mills to an interviewer. "They , are of great sentimental value to mo. "They also took a lot of clothes and my wife's fur coat. T don't mind tliem keeping those so much, hut I would hke my medals back. It has taken iue xfr® years to get them."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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130MEDALS STOLEN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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