LONDON DOCK THEFTS
1 WELL-ORGANISED GANGS AT WORK London, December 4. Tho committee of the London Chamber of Commerce, sot up to investigate tho pilfering from the (locks, reports an enormous 'increase sinco tho war, involving an increaso in insurance premiums. The losses are not duo to petty individual thefts, but to well-orgnnisod gangs of thieves and receivers. One shipping company is paying £250,000 a year for claims. The committee asks tho Homo Secretary to provide a special dotectivo force; trained in tho habits and methods of tho river thieves— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. \
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 7
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93LONDON DOCK THEFTS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 7
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