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MALTA BANDITS £125,000 PAYROLL THEFT CONSTANT SEA PATROL (10 a.m.) VALETTA, April 23. Two destroyers, a sloop and a submarine exercising at sea were diverted to join a coastal patrol hunting for the armed bandits who stole £125,000 from the naval dockyard cashier at Valetta. Searchlights swept the coast throughout the night. Star shells were fired and a destroyer and a frigate maintained a constant patrol to prevent the bandits escaping from the island.
Six men, armed with sub-machine-guns, seized on Thursday three trucks carrying wages to the dockyard workers and escaped with £125,600.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22620, 24 April 1948, Page 5
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