STOLEN BULLION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1609, 28 November 1912, Page 5

STOLEN BULLION.

: .' '''' • i 'V'vt-v .DARING THEFT. OF'^10,000.;, By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright : . London, November 26. Earlier; in the month ten thousand, sovereigns were stolen and replaced by lead in a consignment of 200,000 sovereigns sent to''Egypt. It ,now appears, that the .money was consigned by. the Bank of England' to the Credit Lyonnais, at Alexandria, and the boxes bore the seals of both banks. The seals were intact on the arrival:of.the boxes at Alexandria. \. (Rec. November 27, 10. p.m.) ; "London, November 27. After the lids of the boxes had been secured"" by |''iron'bands; .and sealed, ' tho gold 'was taken-in vans to St. Katherine's Docki and 'placed on a' steamer for Bremen. /.Between Bremen, and .Trieste there were,four changes of trains. When received at Alexandria the contents of two cases.rattled,'and Lloyds' agent was called •to investigate. He' opened the' boxes' and; found, lead; of exactly equivalent, weight ,-,t0. : the [-gold. ,•■;•..';'. .•;, The police believe;that. the theft occur-' Ted between Bremen aid Trieste, when the gold was in the charge of the German postal authorities. , The.frequent changes of railway guards would facilitate the theft;'-:',..:■ .-'" ■;.-; . -.:.'.. . The loss falls-: on Lloyds. .-