GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 24, 15 December 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ROBBERIES IN ENGLAND. I ■ :

Press Association—Copyright, Austria

ban aid N.Z. Ca' Je Association

London, December 13, A, remarkable series of during roberies occurred yesterday. ‘Vm y . A 1 man went into a Yorkshire penny oaiik in Leeds as'it was closing and called out “Hands up,” and covered the manager, two clerks and a. woman assistant'with a‘revolver. The manager- tried to rusii the intruder, but he was,shot through the head. Tile man then locked the clerks in a. room,.seized £4OO, and drove away, in , a taxi waiting outside, the driver of . which did not know anything unusual had happened. Another robbery of £10,444 worth of jewellery from a bedroom of a. bouse in Oadogan Square lone of, the fashionable residential quarters of London) occurred .ovemiig, while tlie whole about. The entered the first floor and escaped,. In another; case a couple of thieves in Birmingham carried away a safe containing £440 from a restaurant while the diners were looking on, none suspecting that there was anything wrong.

AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS.

i'reaw Association —UopyngUt, AimraUau and S.'/j. v/aole Association,

London, December 11

The story of one, Captain A. D. Ellis, ol the 29th Battalion, is to iije published in January by, Messrs Hotider and Stoughton. The siory deals with the 6th Australian Division, and nuis into four hundred pages, in addition to appendices recording details of the Division’s seven Victoria Drosses, other honors and awards, mentions in despatches, and deaths. The profits of the sale of the book will be handed to the dependents of deceased soldiers.

Marshal Foch contributed, a foreword, and says: “In the long and bifier struggle against barbarism, in which the Allied nations displayed the tinest soldierly qualities, the people of Australia ’ won for themselves a place of honor by their undeniable energy, effort calling forth strong contingents of daring and valiant, men. Australia brought, to the, cause aid that will make a mark in The history of the war. The 'Australian Divisions won for themselves glory beyond dispute in the decisive battles that secured victory. ■

WAR GRIMES

t*r®sß Aa»ociatlon— <»pyrigfat, liao and N.Z. Cable Association. Berlin, December 12.

The State Council has accepted a law providing for the punishment ol war crimes committed in enemy countries. The law compels th e Supreme State Court to take the necessary proceedings' against offenders. Hitherto the German code did not provide for crimes committed abroad.