SUBJECT Marine TO M. Bigelow De Be Insurance Browning Fllis REFERENCE DATE October C2, 1947 We have just our marine Dear of Big: head a pilferage report from the F.B.I., who investigated some losses. The FeBele investigated these pilferage losses from St. Louis back to Detroit and satisfied themselves that the pilferage was not Occurring in the United States. They then referred the matter to the Canadian Mounted Police, who investigated at Montreal and St. John. Mr. Freeman of the local F.B.I. has just from the Canadian Police, although he would not made of their correspondence. let me read a report allow a copy to be You will possibly recall our losine 11 guns on one shipment and about 8 on enother early this yeare The Canadian Police report that on the ll gun loss, which consisted of one complete case and one gun missing from another case, that they were satisfied that the complete case was not delivered at the Canadian wharf. They, therefore, feel that the loss of this case was either aboard ship or at Antwerp, and they are inclined to believe that it happened at Antwerp. On the loss of 8 guns in one shipment, Shipment thet was so badly damaged when it this was arrived, the and particular which had hed some 20 cases rec@pered. Their reports indicate that the S.e Se Marchcape, which carried the shipment, had mutiny enroute from Antwerp to Ste John. When the ship docked, the Canadian Police boarded the ship and found that the mutineers had, evidently, armed themselves with some places of our on guns. the ship, A great and many their of the reports guns also were recovered indicate that at various the mutineers might heave thrown some guns overboard before they reached port. This explains why so many cases were broken into, and also why we had guns in one case that should have been in an entirely different case. These broken cases were turned over to the Cenadian Customs officials in Ste John and they rec@pered the cases themselves.