GOLD SHIPMENT STOLEN
Rec 11.30 p.m. BANGKOK, May 12. Between 20 and 30 armed bandits to-day stole an international gold shipment valued at 2.000000 American dollars which was en route to Macao from India on a plane that stopped in Bangkok overnight. The bandits, disguised as Siamese police and soldiers, halted the truck carrying the gold to the custom house for safe keeping. The nine guards were handcuffed while the bandits escaped.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26770, 13 May 1948, Page 7
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72GOLD SHIPMENT STOLEN Otago Daily Times, Issue 26770, 13 May 1948, Page 7
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