A salary elork of the Ministry of Pen
sions, with a bag containing $110,000,
was Just leaving the gates of the park
In a motor van when three men with
revolvers hold up the driver and ordered
the official and his assistant to "clear
out if you value >our lives." The rob
bers mounted the van arid drove off. with
the driver still at the wheel.
CIGARS MAY BE DEARER.
Manila Mulicru >trlke ami Spain
1)oalileii Duty.
Mam;.a, Uarch 24.?More than 10.000
cigarmak'Ts struck Here to-day as a
protest against a 20 per cent, reduction
in wages. Twenty-three factories were
affected.
Havana, March 24.?Customs dutiea
on Cuban cigars entering Spain will be
in future assessed on the-basis of the
Spanish trold pe.?eta instead of the silver
peseta, as heretofore. This amounts, it
Is d^elared, to a 50 per cent, increase
I in the duties on cigars imported to
I Spain. Cuban manufacturers of cigars
have cabled a protest to Madrid.
UNIONS IN GERMANY
DENOUNCE RED MOVE
Continued trorn Firtt Pagt
j the riff-raff the cue for the present out
break."
Voruaerta holds th*.t Communist
machinations ar? responsible for the
blood spilled In Hambury and various
places In middle Germany, which. It
| says. Is only the logical outcome of the
j Reds' Insistent demand that the work
j ers ami themselves.
The Red. Flay, the Communists' organ,
i continues to publish inflammatory arti
Icles. The bourgeois pre."! chargi-a thai
the present reign of lawlessness Is
' directly traceable to orders of the Mos
1 cow Cabinet.
