14 was then that the robbers, rid~ Ing Ina green ear bearing licence No, $182 and City Government plates No, 055, alighted from the vehicle fand approached the clerk. One of them, \ddressed the Belleving panese authorities and might have come either to make enquiries or to search the premises, the cleric sent another Chinese to the office to ask someone to come down, The Jo ese then proceeded Into the Yoom from where the money was beig taken out and, together with his accomplice, transferred the parcels Before the stupefied witnesses knew what way happening, the Jap-nese and his Chinese accomplice got nto the ear and drove away. It wag then that that the supervisor and the: coolles, as well as the three guards who had been detailed to watch over the money, realized that they "had been robbed and raised an. alarm.
The ear with the robbers had by then disappeared. closed on Friday. the $2.500.000 were kept at the Post Ofee until yesterday morning when If was (0 be loaded and transferred to the postal bank.
An official of the Post Ofice stated that the Japanese had fold the supervising clerk that he wag from the Japanese authorities. This was later proven to be a trick on his part. His ruse, it appears, worked perfectly, for neither he nor his Chinese accomplice was seen to take out a pistol. This led detectives to be-Heve that the men might have been
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