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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15046, 14 April 1919, Page 3

! Instances of the recovery of valuables from reoccupied villages in France are not uncommon, says the "Daily Ghi-on-ide.''. A rather curious, one recently came within our knowledge. An officer was taking over billets in a village evacuated by the enemy about 3 weeks before, and used hj '-.pur troops ever since. In one house he noticed some papers spread over a table. Casually glancing over them he found they were securities worth some hundreds of pounds, with dividends unpaid since 1914. They had probably been concealed in a mattress,, or under floor hoards,, and found by our men, who had used them as .a table cloth in ignorance of their true yalue. Thgv were, of course, handed over to the French, authorities for/restitution to their rightful owners.