VARIOUS CABLES.
STRENGTHENING DEFENCES. Received Mt.y 17, 9.42 p.m. PEKIN,MayI7. •The Raj defences at Kioachan arej being strengthened and artillery and mining depots established. IVOR* CRUCIFIX STOLEN. Received May 17, 9.42 p.m. NEW YORK, May 17. An ivory crucifix, by Michael Angelo, valued at £IO,OOO, and belonging to Doctor H. W. Carter, of New York, has been stolen. GREAT ART THEFTS. Received May 17, 9.34 a.m. LONDON, May 16. Felix Rodoni, alias Smith, has been committed for trial for the Wertheimer burglary. (In February the house of Mr Chas. Wertheimer, in Park Lane, was entered by burglars, and pictures and articles of vertu valued at £50,000 were stolen, including the Gainsborough picture "Nancy Parsons" and Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of Mrs Charles York, valued at £20,000. Smith, or Rodoni, when arrested some days ago, had in his possession four of the stolen articles (snuffboxes). A large portion of the treasures and proceeds of the burglary have now been recovered in a small house in Clapham, but it does not/ include the missing Gainsborough and Reynolds' pictures.)
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association—By'Elect'iicTelegraph Copyright.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8445, 18 May 1907, Page 5
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182VARIOUS CABLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8445, 18 May 1907, Page 5
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