Disguised Police Mix with Dock Workers Plain clothes police mixed with stevedores and other dock workers at King George V Dock, Silvertown, on Jan. 3, while wooden boxes were being unloaded from the P: and O. liner Ranchi.
the boxes contained £2,000,000 worth of silver brought from China.
They were carried with general cargo while on the voyage from the East, but almost as soon as the Ranchi berthed,, special "police precautions were taken.
The bullion was taken away in ordinary delivery vans, and only those working on the boat knew what was in the wooden cases," a stevedore told "The Star."
Most of it is in silver coin, similar to a previous cargo of bullion which arrived from China a week previous.
In these docks we are used to handling bullion, but seldom has so much been brought over on one voyage.
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