BANDITS ROB AGA KHAN
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+ Car Stopped And Valuable , Jewellery Taken
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Received Thursday, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, August 3. The" British United Press' Paris eorrespondent reports "that four men armed with tommy-guns amoushed the car of the Aga Khan and his wife near Nice today and. robbed them of jewellery worth between £136,000 and £182,000. The bandits stopped the car by spraying the back tyres with tommy-gun bullets. They ordered ihe occupants — the Aga Khan, the Begum and the ch'duffeur — to keep quiet and seized the Begum'ss per- i sonal case containing her jewels and items of silver, and took the Aga Khan's brief case„ The bandits escaped in a blaek sedan car. The Aga Khan and the Begum had just left their chateau, near Nice, to join Prince Aii Khan and his wife, Rita Hayworth, at Deauville. Later the Aga Khan offered a,-. £4500 reward for information about the attackers. The Aga Khan is one of the world's wealthiest men. He and his ' wife have never had a bodyguard.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 August 1949, Page 7
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171BANDITS ROB AGA KHAN Chronicle (Levin), 4 August 1949, Page 7
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