THEFT OF PASSPORTS
GANG AT WORK IN LONDON NEW ZEALAND VICTIM’S EXPERIENCE. BROUGHT BACK AS VIRTUAL PRISONER. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A gang of passport pickpockets operating in London at the outbreak of war has hindered the return of many New Zealanders and Australians. Mr W. R. Holmes, of Wellington, a victim of the gang, arrived in Sydney in an overseas liner. He has been a virtual prisoner aboard for nearly two months. He was held on the liner for six hours before being allowed to land for transhipping to New Zealand. Mr Holmes said: “I lost my money, passport and steamship tickets at St Pancras Station. I reported the mat-1 ter to a Scotland Yard official, who said a gang had secured scores of passports from passengers’ pockets. Mr Holmes added: ’T have been banned from going ashore at every port, but my troubles will really begin when I get to Wellington.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 8
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161THEFT OF PASSPORTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 8
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