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... Manager. Hong Kong, December 17, 1981.
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THEFT OF RELIE:
Copenhagen's oldest playhouse, the jak kt kiinnn af ch Nderrubros Theatre, which had only recently changed handa for price of over half a million kroner. The Neoerrebros Theatre was one of the first stages in Europe and the world, on which Ibsen's, plays' were produced.--Transocean Kuomin
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June
Cross That Belonged To Flora MacDonald
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[Den su cants for 1238.21, **
Intermat dalf yearly
Prisoner asked that two other charges should be taken into ac count, one being the theft of diamond brooch, valued at £85, be- onging to Mrs. Urquhart, of Bras ted Place, Frasted, Kent, and the other the golden cross, belonging to Mrg. Horlock, of Little Paddocks, golden cross, stated to have Sunningdale, in whose family, it ged to Flora Macdonald, who was stated, the cross had remained the escape of "Bonny Prince since it was received from Flora
following the Battle of Macdonald,
Callode
wis mentioned in Oxted Burrey Police Court,
when
Leiria Colbertaldo, an Italian sub- fect was sentenced to six months", hard labour for theft.
QUALITY PRINTING
- She was churred with stegling Jewellery, and - clothing, valued, at #21, belonging to Misy Dayline Leak of Church Cottage Lingfeld, hay bal arberg, she had been employed as a sewing knald,