PILLAGE RAMP
ORGANISED FOR BLACK MARKET COMMONWEALTH MEASURES TO SMASH GANGSTERS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Rec. 12.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 3. A central cargo control committee has been formed to help to stamp out pillaging from trains, ships, wharves', and warehouses. The police in all States, special railway and waterfront detectives and American and Australian service police' will co-operate with the new committee. The Commonwealth Government is reported to have set aside more than £IOO,OOO to finance, a drive against organised pilfering, which the officials say is the source of goods for the black market. The shipping companies have subscribed money to help detect and break up the gangs of pilferers who are believed to be operating as an interstate organisation. Special investigators said the gangs operating on goods trains knew before the trains left the goods yards which trucks contained the goods marked down for theft. Cargoes were broached while the trains were moving. The stolen property was then thrown off and picked up by lorries following the train. The goods were then trucked to a storage centre and released in the black market by agents.
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Evening Star, Issue 25323, 3 November 1944, Page 2
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186PILLAGE RAMP Evening Star, Issue 25323, 3 November 1944, Page 2
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