No Clue to Theft of $400,000 at Yokohama Specie Bavk Writing of the theft of $40,000 worth of notes from the Yokohama Specie Bank in Hongkong during the Whitsuntide holidays, the "S.C. Morning Post" says The police and bank staff, who conducted a_ close search of the strong room from which the money was filched, failed to find the slightest clue as to the identity of the perpetrators or how entrance was secured.
From the information given by the manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank, it appears that after the staff had returned to work on the Tuesday morning the cashier had occasion to enter the strong room in the basement of the building. Everything was in perfect order. His suspicions were first aroused by one of the locks of the safe, which appeared to have been tampered with. He opened the safe and the first glimpse of the interior justified his fears, the safe showing distinct signs of /having been rifled. The manager, who was at once sent for, made a careful inspection with the cashier and found that about four lakhs in Hongkong notes were shrissing. This amount did not represent all the money that was kept in the safe, in which was another lakh of money which was fortunately left intact by the robbers. The police were called in, but despite a careful examination of the premises found no trace of any burglary implements or how the intruders managed to get into the strong room, which was still locked when the cashier entered. The manager of the bank confessed that he was nonplussed as to the methods adopted by the robbers, who, he believed, knew the place well; in fact the robbery.was a complete mystery to him:
As a precaution against robberies the Bank of Yokohama has in its service an Indian watchman and armed guards on duty during the day, and an Indian guard on watch at night. The night man is not armed. This man the police examined at length after they had searched the strong room, and all he could say was that he heard no movements nor noticed anything extraordinary to excite his suspicions. The robbery, he said, was as great a surprise to him as to the manager, of the bank.
Wuen the 2nd Battalion of the Independence Corps of the Cantonese Army returned to Canton recently it had certain trophies to display to the inhabitants. Thesd were a huge tiger of extraordinary ferocity and two large sized: monkeys, all three animals having been' trapped by the soldiers during their stay in the interior. They have been presented by the commander of the battalion to the White Cloud Monastery.
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