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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14864, 11 September 1918, Page 7

A rmmber of isolated houses in North New Brighton have suffered during tne : week-from a form of vandalism'(says an exchange) which -would suggest that a small party of larrikins or .irresponsive ; juveniles Had been at-work.. -Wcek-cna house-owners, in at least a dozen cases,. arrived on Saturday to find windows smashed and garden shrubs destroyed. , Other rases, however, were more serious, : the windows having, been broken m ■ order to force an entry into the : premises. Strange to say, in the case i of such broken-into houses, few articles of value were taken1. In one typical i instance, the household goods of an • absent soldier, which were stored in a bach, were strewn in.ruthless profusion ■ on the floor, the interior resembling a : scene in Northern France or Belgium ■ after a Hun invasion? However, many expensive articles which would be, ■ tempting to the ordinary thief, such a" i silverware, were not taken, the onij ] .article apparently missing being a shot« i gun. The marauders had obviously i played a game of cards prior to' leaving, i | but- the cards themselves, which belong- < ed to the house, were hot taken. : i :.. ' 1