BOXES OF BULLION.
HANDLED LIKE GROCERIES! (Sun Special.) LONDON, February 14. With a guard of only one policeman, £1,000,000 in gold was despatched from Paddington station last night to private American bankers. Cases of groceries could not have been more casally handled, and the hurrying crowds did not glance at the ordinary-looking boxes, which were openly, unloaded into a van, indistinguishable from a luggage van, but ingeniously constructed from armour plating three inches thick. The authorities explained that precautions that were Wt elaborate prove the safest.
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Shannon News, 22 February 1929, Page 3
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86BOXES OF BULLION. Shannon News, 22 February 1929, Page 3
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