£40,000 DIAMOND ROBBERY
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 14. London assessors today offered a reward of £4OOO for information leading to the recovery of 90,000 uncut diamonds worth £40.000 which disappeared last month between West Africa and Paris. The assessors said that they were being flown from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, West Africa, to a Paris jeweller, with a change of aircraft, at Algiers. They were rough diamonds of all sizes from very small ones up to an individual weight of about two carats. They were only of use to the trade. French and West African police have been making inquiries for the last five weeks into wh?it the London firm described as “a very carefullyplanned robbery."
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27405, 19 July 1954, Page 7
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116£40,000 DIAMOND ROBBERY Press, Volume XC, Issue 27405, 19 July 1954, Page 7
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