They rob $ to them 300,000 to foreign tourists

They were assaulted in a Cordovan inn

CORDOBA. - A band of about seven armed delinquents took by assault the stay La Paz, a luxurious inn reserved to the international tourism, it reduced to eight North American tourists and it raised with money and properties of the victims by a value considered by the police in about 300,000 pesos. Also valuable objects of collection took.

The establishment constructed in 1930, that belonged to ex- president Julio To Roca and welcomed in characterized world-wide figures - the last one of them, the banker David Rockefeller -, is in kilometer 14 of the provincial route E-66, jurisdiction of Ascochinga, to 12 km of the city of Jesus Maria. It has a great park of 100 hectares, that was designed by the paisajista Charles Thays, and counts on fields of pole and golf.

The attackers burst in the night before last, around the 21, and reduced to 14 people, between employees and guests, to whom they maintained under the threat of the arms during approximately one hour.

In that lapse they managed to also seize of the 40,000 dollars and all the objects of value that took the tourists, and of the content of a safe-deposit box of the hotel, in which there were five thousand pesos in Lecor bonds. In addition they took a collection of you kill and a book on the conquest of the desert, with ivory covers.

The tourists had traveled to Cordova with the intention to participate in the hunting of doves that is habitually made in the zone of Jesus Maria.

In order to be made understand by the Americans, the delinquents resorted to an interpreter who translated his orders and forced the tourists to give to his money and personal effects of value. With the booty in their hands, the delinquents fled in a Ford light truck property from the personnel from the stay.