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Show ANNUAL THEFTS FROM RAILROADS ARE LARGE BERLIN, Nov. J5. (By the Associated Press.) The annual thefts from German railroads are officially characterized as amazing, amounting this year to goods valued at 118,000.000 marks. Ju peace times the thefts usuallv cost the railroads rail-roads from 8,000,000 to 5,000,000 marks. Herr Oeser. Prussian minister of railroads, rail-roads, in announcing these figures In the Prussian diet, said that a bureau would he created by the ministry of railroads to combat the evil and that all persons connected, with the ministry w ho had connived in the thefts would be dismissed. |