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Show PRUSSIAN RAILWAYS PAY FOR THEFTS ZURICH, April 19. Official reports Of the Prussian property lost or stolen n transit compared with 4,000,000 marks in 1914. The German postoffice paid three million marks In compensation during 1917 compared with one hundred thousand thou-sand in 1913. The greater part of the goods stolen on the railways was food- i stuffs, clothing and other articles of necessity The robberies on the Austrian railways rail-ways are reported to be even greater than in Germany. The ministry of i railways in Vienna bogs the public not to send goods by rail exci pt in the most urgent cases. |