THEFT OF BULLION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3108, 29 December 1921, Page 6

THEFT OF BULLION.

LOSSES FROM STEAMERS, .moon FROM VENTURA, SYDNEY, Nov. 2(1. The theft of Dio,00(1 :il San Francisco from the mail steamer Sonoma recalls many robberies of bullion in the past from steamers trading between Australia and the Orient, America and England. The most sensational was that from the Ventura, the sister ship of the Sonoma, in May. 1 Q o<), when on the journey to San Francisco boxes containing toO.OtlO disappeared from the vessel. Altogether there was L‘l -30,0(1(1 worth of gold on board, and the it.ono lost was a consignment of the London flank of Australia. A robbery of I'AHtlO worth of gold from tlie steamer Taiyuan, Imm Hongkong, was reported shortly before this, and some gold disappeared from the -teamer A'oea between .Melbourne and Sydney, Robberies were also reported iTom Ibe "I mng-i, mins ol the f )ceania, Iberia and Ormuz in Melbourne. A port ion of Dm Tallinn in gold taken tiom Hie Omni/, was subsequently found by some boys in a dram pipe in Will ianislown I V if.) Detectives In all the eases were busy at diltci'ciil ends ot the world, and il was believed that American crooks com miffed some o! (he robberies. They were watched for months, but the missing bullion could not be t raced lo them.