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THE CHINA MAIL OCTOBER 6, 1988,

FRANCE WATCHES FOR MASKED ROBBERS OF £400,000 GOLD CARGO

Marseilles, Sept. 23. Both drivers said that what had happened was obvious. While the Every port and frontier Customs guard was telling the police our station in France has been ordered story," said Ayme, “we found that to keep watch for the masked gang the door of the signal post of a who looted £400,000 worth of gold wagon had been opened. from Marseilles-Avignon goods train early this morning.

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"There must have been an accom-- plice on the train. He must have- Since 2.30 a.m. police have got in at St. Charles. Outside St.... watched all roads leading into Mar- Barthelemy, at a prearranged point, seilles. Every yard of the line he blocked the brakes. Only an ex-- between the city and the suburb of pert would know how to do it." Nov. 2

St. Barthelemy, where the robbery Nov. 14 took place, has been searched. Nov. 29 Watch is concentrated on Marseilles wharves, from which liners and freighters leave every hour ports throughout the world.

Experts say that the gold addressed to a Belgian factory Hoboken said to be the only one in Europe where such gold can be refined, and that therefore the ban- dits will be unable to get more than £500 for the 168 ingots.

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"When: M. Masclet said to me: for I was first hit, I lay still beside the track, pretending to be dead. Above me some one was saying: "One word and I'll shoot.

was at

"This was the first time I had been on this particular job. I was- replacing the regular man. I had been told that I was to keep- special guard over the two stolen: baskets."

All senior members of the Mar-- seilles police force have visited the

siding,

The train left St. Charles Station at 1.40 a.m. There were aboard two engine drivers, Pierre Ayme and. Auguste Mourrier, who have made train, which has been backed into the trip together many times; Emile Depousier, the guard; and Achille Masclet, detailed to sit in one of the vans and keep watch on the gold...

Seven years ago a similar train" robbery was staged at Marseilles.- The man who then blocked the brakes had formerly been employed by the French railways for that It is believed that there must particular job. have been aboard a fifth unknown

A woman at St. Barthelemy has man-who applied the brakes to told the police that she heard the let his accomplices swarm aboard bandits shouting, and watched the and carry out the robbery, and lorry disappear towards Marseilles. who escaped with them.

'BLACK HOODS'

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Pierre Ayme said to me to-day: "We were just past St. Barthe- lemy Station, travelling at a good pace, when the train was stopped.

Fingerprints found on the vans are being examined at police labora- tories at Marseilles.

We hurried down to see the guard, HOTEL THIEF

IN GUISE

thinking he must have applied the emergency brakes.

"When we found he had not all four of us began a search. ·

OF ROOM "BOY"

"We were moving towards the front vans when half a dozen

Wong Ping Chuen, aged 32, un-- men rushed towards us across the little strip of vacant land beside employed, was remanded for 24 hours by Mr. R. Edwards at the the railway.

Central Magistracy, this morning, "They wore black silk hoods, slit when he was charged with stealing with eye-holes. Each man had a cocked revolver in his hand. They $124 in Hong-kong currency from were all shouting, then they fired So Man, aged 37, visitor, at room No. 505 Empress Hotel, Des Voeux Road Central.

over us.

a volley of shots towards us.

"I flung myself down. One of them rushed over to me, saying. Detective Sergeant C. Dowman: 'Keep still, driver, or I'll shoot. We told the Court that at about 6.15 lay motionless while he stood guard a. m. this morning, defendant pre--

tended to be a room boy, entered "His friends made at once for the complainant's room, saying that he first steel baggage car. There were was bringing tea to him, while he seventeen big baskets inside. Two was still in bed. After defendant- of them contained gold from the left, So found the money in his Belgian Congo, consigned to Bel-trousers" pocket missing. Defen-- gium. Mostly it was gold ore, dant was searched for by a room" quartz, and unrefined gold ingots. boy of the Hotel, but it was found that, together with a woman, he had disappeared. During the search, defendant was arrested in a ladies' lavatory, where the exact sum of money was found in his

WAITING LORRY

"The men had no doubt about what they wanted. They grabbed the two treasure baskets, lugged possession. them from the train, and crossed the roadway about fifty feet away, where a motor lorry was waiting.

"As they bundled the heavy Yuen Hok Lam, baskets into the lorry one of them

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some person From the running-board of the trainer

and” atale One another man shouted back. “We'v got enough." The men boarded the wrist; forry- and vanished.

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