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Government soldiers and sailors, he continued, have captured hundreds of Communist irregulars equipped with Russian field pieces and rifles. Chao declared that the Communists have pillaged the countryside of northern China, robbed the peasants of food, and shipped their loot across the border in return for weapons...
...have an uncontrollable urge to steal things, Wright has spent 15 of his 38 years in jail. Often he has stolen things he could neither use nor sell. The last time the cops caught him, after a series of Pittsburgh burglaries, they found his apartment full of hoarded, unused loot, including 40 suits, assorted jewelry, several alarm clocks and radios...
...urge the Government: 1) to take action for the quick recovery of Dairen and Port Arthur; 2) to petition U.N. for the return of Russian loot from Manchuria; and 3) to declare null & void the Sino-Soviet treaty...
...months, Scotland Yard's sleuths followed a shimmering trail of 1,600 butterflies that led from Australia to England. They were stolen from three Australian museums, and much of the thief's bag of exotic loot was irreplaceable. Among the missing butterflies were specimens rare beyond price-an Adaluma urumelia, silky white tinged with blue; an Ogyris zozine splendida, the only one of its black and metallic-blue type ever known to have been netted; several Diana Moonbeams, whose dull purple shading excites collectors just as a light excites a moth...
...would be a long time before Princess Margareta von Hesse could expect her heirlooms back. Army investigators had not yet found another million dollars worth of the loot, which they think might have been buried in the U.S. or already sold through underworld fences. And because the jewels already recovered had been smuggled into the U.S. without declaration, they would be shipped back to the U.S. for formal clearance by the Customs Bureau...