ROBBING THE BELGIAN BANKS
LATEST HUN OUTRAGE. (Ree. May 9, '0.55 a.m.) Amsterdam, May 8. • General von Falkenhausen (German Governor of Belgium) ordered a general raid on the safes in the Belgian bank vaults, where hundreds of millions' in cash, bonds, and jewellery were deposited fcefore the war. The Belgian safemakers refused to supply workmen to help to open the safes, and von Falkenh'auscn thereupon telegraphed •to Germany to send workmen, fearing to blow up the safes lest he should destroy the contents. The Belgians l'cpe that the Allies will seize all the German money in the banks in America and the Atticd countries. —Aus.-N.2i. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3079, 9 May 1917, Page 7
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