MR CHURCHILL ROBBERY.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14517, 7 May 1913, Page 8

MR CHURCHILL ROBBERY.

DRAMATIC 'SPY STOUV

LONDON, April 25

An extraordinary story of a daring robbery of which Mr Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, was lately made the victim by a' young Woman at Cannes, has just been published. (Mr Churchill is reported to have lost not only 5000, ibut also some (highly important and confidential naval data. n

The robbery was perpetrated immediately after Mr Churchill had won some money at cards. The young who is suspected of being" nn agent of some foreign Power, ai.d two aristocratic-looking men by trhom she was accompanied, paid great attention to the First Lor 3, Innd while chatting to the woman Mr Churchill placed a bundle of notes in ; his right hip pockety He went away a few minutes later, and it was'not until he returned-to his yacht that he discovered the.; loss of hi-s money and a pocketnboo-k'cori-taining!" notes on British naval matters that would be extremely valuable to any" foreign Power. Scotland Yard officers are investigating- the case. .