Show mail on steamships now new york aug 5 chief postmaster inspector ashes ashe with assistants in this ibis city and elsewhere has been working for days on a series of remarkable robberies of mall mail matter carried aboard the great ocean steamships the authorities admit that the mails have been robbed but refuse to give particulars they will not say how much has been lost but it is known that the thefts aggregate thousands of dollars the first of tg ahe thefts occurred several months ago and has never been satisfactorily I 1 explained additional complaints were received and the inspectors spec tors became convinced that the foreign mails were being systematically robbed on a large scale as eighty packages of matter have been missed from a single steamship the mail stolen in that case was mostly in registered pouches which had been sealed it in the general office in this city and opened by the clerks aboard the vessel |