IDLE SHIPS RAIDED.
FURNISHINGS REMOVED. ■ y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, March 27. Th© murder of a watchman, has dis- i closed the fact that 164 of th© United States Shipping Board vessels, anchored in the Hudson River near New , York, owing to lack of freights, have j been raided and furnishings removed, valued at nearly 1. OCX), 000 dollars. The 1 operations were conducted during th& j winter, when the river was frozen over, j th© loot being carried over the ice. j More than five hundred men composed j the skeleton crews who were supposed j to he guarding the vessels. Tt is he- f lieved tbos© co-ope rated with the thieves. i
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16694, 28 March 1922, Page 2
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