CHECKING CRIME
MEASURES IN BRITAIN QUICK RESULTS ACHIEVED (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 14. The drive to check the crime wave brought quick results, says the Daily Telegraph. Scores of deserters have been rounded up, some of whom have been hiding for two or three years. Scotland Yard arrested in the last 24 hours five men allegedly concerned in various recent hold-ups. The road-block system, enabling the police to comb out specific areas, has proved successful in London-and may be extended to the home counties. Incidents yesterday included a shirtsleeved gunman who, flourishing a revolver, made his escape on a London bus after assaulting a policeman who demanded to see his identity card. The man struck the policeman and jumped on the bus after a struggle, leaving his jacket in the policeman’s hands. Armed police guarded friendly society officials who were collecting £75.000 from a Hammersmith bank for the society’s Christmas payments.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26027, 15 December 1945, Page 7
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