Hongkong, June 28.
Burglars entered Messrs. Ullmann Co's jewellery store here last night. They opened the big safe, besides others, containing valuable diamonds, ransacked the store and carried off valuables amounting to over $200,000. A Chinese from Shanghai has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the burglary.—Reuter.
First reports of the jewellery robbery seem to have been exaggerated, Instead of $200,000 which would be about Fes. 2,000,000, the valuation was more probably Fes, 200,000, or about Tls. 30,000 at present exchange, according to Mr. Blum, manager of the Far Eastern head office of Messrs. J. Ullman Ca., Shanghai.
Messrs. Ullman's store on Queen's Road, Hongkong, was entered on the night of June 26-97, the burglars forcing an entrance by making two holes in the wall. They broke open a safe containing gold watches and jewellery, and the loss is limited to the contents of this one safe. The thieves had attempted to open a safe containing diamonds and other precious stones, sbut were not successful.
'A third safe, containing only silver watches, was not opened, which leads to the supposition that the thieves received a hint from a Chinese employee.
Following the Hirsbrunner_robbery in Shanghai some months ago, when thieves came in through his ceiling, it is understood that local insurance companies refused any longer to insure jewellery. stocks. Early in the year Mr. Blum recommended to his head office in Paris that stocks in the couipany's various stores in the East be insured against burglary, and early in May a reply came that they would do so, but whether the loss is actually covered "Mr. Blum could not state.
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