Whenever an assault occurs in a railway carriage in this country an outery is raised for compelling the railway companies to adopt exclusively the system of corridor trains; but two or three cases which have been reported from the Continent of late tend to show that corridor ts do not always afford protection even from brutal ruffians, while to thieves they offer exceptional facilities, It is reported that while travelling from Paris to Calais the other day the Dowager Duchess of Suther-Tad was robbed of a box containing jewellery to the value of some £20,000. the left it alone in the carriage for afew minutes only at the Paris station. She had been making large purchases of jewels while in Paris, and it is believed that she was watched by a gang of expert jewel robbers to whom the corridor carriage gave their opportunity, The Duchess, it may be remembered was imprisoned for contempt of court a fow year so for destroying a document which had belonged to her late husband the Duke, in defiance of a Judge's order. She has since married Sir Albert Rollit with whom she was travelling at the time of the robbery.
Mr. George Wyndham, M.P., sometime private secretary to Mr. Balfour, has been appointed Under-Secretary for War in place "f Mr. St. John Brodrick, transferred to the Foreign Office. Mr. Wyndham was himself first favourite for the office vacated by Mr. Curzon, but his appointrient to the War Office will'no doubt solace him for his disappointment, The death roll for the woak includes Mr. Harold Frederic, the well-known American journalist and novelist; who had been for many years settled in London, '21st October.
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