CLOTHING BANDITS
POLISH WOMEN STRIPPED STREETS AND TRAINS (9 a.m.) LONDON, March 24. Frequent hold-ups in which girls and women are practically stripped of ail clothing are occurring nightly in the streets of Poland’s cities and large towns, states the Associated Press correspondent at Warsaw. Bandits, in day raids, are boarding trains and going from carriage to carriage stripping off coats, stockings, shoes, dresses and jewellery. One Polish girl travelling from Cracow to Warsaw to be married arrived with her trousseau, clad only in a cotton underskirt and barefooted.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21979, 25 March 1946, Page 5
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89CLOTHING BANDITS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21979, 25 March 1946, Page 5
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