MAIL-BAG THEFT.
MODE OF OPERATION. Bt TelepriDb-Press Association—OopyrlsM Paris, November 20. It is probable that the thieves who opened fifty mail bags on a train near Macon, France, and got away with contents, the valuo of which is roughly estimated at .£120,000, boarded the train at Dijon. The mail sacks in ihe four rear van-i were rifled while all tho sorters wero working in the four front vans. English mails dispatched on Friday for India travelled by a subsequent train. On the other hand, the Messagories-Mari-times' steamer CVilodonien's London mail, dispatched before Friday, was ransackoJ.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1292, 22 November 1911, Page 7
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95MAIL-BAG THEFT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1292, 22 November 1911, Page 7
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