RUSH ON BELFAST BANKS
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Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONDON. July 11. Businessmen, shopkeepers and holidaymakers drew tnore than £25,000,000 from Belfast banks in a few hours following a threat by hank clerks to strike. Police with revolvers swinging loose at their holsters, guaraed businessmen as they drove av/ay with attache cases, bullisn boxes and trunks packed with notes. • It was the heaviest run on the hanks of the city ever known, says the Daily Mail's Belfast correspondent. Queues formed as soon as the hanks opened and when they closed many were. still waiting outside. The clerks' zero hour is midnight when it is expected a prearranged strike plan will he put into eff ect.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 July 1946, Page 5
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