BELGIUM.
RAID ON SAFES. HUX WAY OF GETTIXG RICH. ■Received May 9, 12.50 a.m. Amsterdam, May S. 'General Falkenhausen lias ordered a general raid upon the. safes in the Belgian 'bank vaults,, where hundreds of millions in cash, honds, and jewellery are deposited, the deposit*; having been made prior to the war. Belgian safemakers refused to supply workmen to help open the safes. Falken-hausen-thereupon telegraphed to Germany to send workmen, fearing to blow up the safes lest the contents hsould "be destroyed, z The Belgians hope the Allies will seize German money in American and Allied banks.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1917, Page 5
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97BELGIUM. Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1917, Page 5
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