American Shipping

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 December 1949, Page 2

American Shipping

American President Lines, which has announced a construction programme for west coast shipping at a cost of 100,000,000 dollars, said today that it did not plan to open additional trade routes with the new ships it has ordered. The line will continue to ply established trade routes across the Pacific to the Far East and to operate a round-the-world' service by way of India and the Mediterannean.— San Francisco, December 28.

Big Bombay Robbery Reuter says that five armed mert held up a van belonging to the £entral Bank of India in the heart of Bombay today, stabbed two bank employees, and escaped, with a steel box containing more than 500,000 rupees (more than £37,000). The attack. was made as the van. pulled* up in front of a bank to deliver cash oil its usual morning round.— Bom-’ bay, December 28. Battle In Police Van Twenty-one Communist prisoners fought 1 their armed guards in a closed police van travelling to a Calcutta court yesterday. Three prisoners were killed, and two others and a guard were injured. The driver of the van drove at full speed to the nearest hospital as the battle raged behind him. Elsewhere in Calcutta five policemen were injured after firing on Communists who burned trams and threw acid bombs. —Calcutta, December 28.