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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1922, Page 19

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UCHUVVUUU UUHOn. MILLIONS OF FOUNDS LOOTED FROM MAIL BY BANDITS. United States marines now guard mail vans on the railways ami mail wagons In 'of the Navy, thai "the mail must be de- ' llvered or there must be a marine dead at ' the. post of duty." I Merchants In New York have also made urgent appeal to the police authorities to 'protect the sreat stocks of jewellery and cither valuable tilings offered to shoppers for Christmas and New Year Rifts. The ruer/'lmm.s have good reason for their concern. , for the i>oii'-e seem nimble to cope with the wave of crime which has continued since the armistice. ■ Flip nini'S hnvp Ijoen looted of roonev arid securities totalling millions of pounds. Such j ii ftate of thlnsM has nut .■xistpd in this j jcountry slin'e tue frontier days of tne Deadj wood coa-li. ■j Itifle. revolver, djnamite eilck and hand grenade, a'l have been employed ruthlessly by these "gentlemen of the iron road," auct of the hlelnvny. j Secretary Denby. in hie emphatic order to ; the puard, says: — "Thtve is no eompromlsp in this battle j with liamlits. If two murines guarding a mall r-ar are sti.Netily covered by a robber neither mist hold up his hands, but botu miKt begin shootinp. i "One tuny be kill.il. but the other must g'-t the r"hii ( <r and save tho mail. Keep your weapons in hand, aud if attacked shoot, and shoot to kill."