THEFT BY DOCKERS
600 LIVERPOOL ARRESTS
LONDON, December 22.
Six hundred Liverpool dockers have been arrested for theft since the outbreak of the war. The cpntents of cases for shipment, mostly to New Zealand, have been removed and rubbish substituted.
Inquiries made at Auckland and Wellington from importers and others have failed to substantiate the suggestion of large-scale pillage of cargo received at either of these ports from Britain. Mr, R. E. Price, chairman of the Waterfront Control Commission, stated this afternoon that the commission had not, received any complaints, and that if there had been pillaging on the scale reported in the cablegram it was bound to have come under the notice of the commission.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1940, Page 8
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116THEFT BY DOCKERS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1940, Page 8
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