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Show Maharaja Embarks on Huge Game Hunt-for Gem Thief NEW DELHI, INDIA. -The Maharaja Ma-haraja of Bilkha, who has a reputation repu-tation for his prowess as a big game hunter, now is trailing his biggest prey yet a thief who stole 400 be-jeweled be-jeweled headdresses. For years the maharaja, Darbar Shree Ravatwala Saheb, has collected col-lected bejewelled turbans from Cairo to Singapore. He wears six a day in succession one at breakfast, break-fast, another when dictating, a third at the audience he grants his prime minister, a fourth during his afternoon after-noon stroll, a fifth at dinner, and a particularly resplendent sixth on his nocturnal visit to his "chief queen." In his palace he has literally liter-ally roomfuls of turbans. Some unbelievably reckless Bilka native purloined 400 of these headdressesa head-dressesa feat about comparable to walking out of Alcatraz. Now the heat is on in earnest, and every one of the maharaja's 45.000 subjects has been or will be given a searching search-ing third degree. Several hundred natives are under arrest as suspects. sus-pects. The maharaja, meanwhile, threatens confiscatory taxes unless his prized turbans are returned pronto and intact. |