LOOTING IN MELBOURNE.
UNDER COVER OP DARKNESS.
(by cable—mr.ss associatios—cornuciHT-> LAUSTBAMAX AS» V.7.. CA3LX -ASSOCUTIOX.)
MELBOURNE, July 3.
A breakdown in the city electrical power supply put the city in darkness lato yesterday. .Most of the largo business houses wcro filled with customers before prevent ire measures could be taken.
Thieves were quickly at work, and many thousands of pounds' worth of goods -wcro looted. Bargain basements wero particularly unlucky, rnost of tso goods disappearing from them.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18425, 4 July 1925, Page 13
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77LOOTING IN MELBOURNE. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18425, 4 July 1925, Page 13
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