GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 127, 16 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A DARING ROBBERY. By Gable—Press Association —Copyright. London, October 14. Three thieves entered a jeweller's shop in Edge ware road and inspected a £sfi ring. They then presented revolvers, and •after stunning the manager with the butt-end of a revolver left the shop. They ran to a waiting taxi-ea'b and one mounting the footboard held a revolver to the driver's body and forced him to drive to a quiet corner of Finsbury Circus and escaped.

DEFRAUDING A DEALER, Paris, October 14. The name of the German, said to be a relative of the Kaiser, who has been arrested on a charge of defrauding a dealer in antiquities, is Baron Deradowitza. A DISAPPOINTED ROBBER. Paris, October 14. The Bank of Egypt documents have been recovered in a house in the Rue Lafitte, accompanied by a note from the thief, stating that he had made a mistake. A COACH ACCIDENT. Algiers, October 14. A river, in flood swept away a mail coach, eight out of twelve of the occupants being drowned. i CRETAN DEPUTIES IN GREECE. I | Athens, October 14. The Cretan deputies, profiting by the war, defied the Powers and entered the Greek Chamber. THE BOY SCOUTS. Ottawa, October 14. The Duke of Connaught, speaking at Winnipeg on the Boy Scout movement, said that ignorant and mischievous people sometimes characterised it as a militarist scheme, but if aims such as 1 the movement inculcated could be described as militaristic, then certainly militarism was the best possible tilling for any nation.