FAKIRS TO BE ROUNDED UP IN UNITED STATES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14495, 5 January 1918, Page 3

FAKIRS TO BE ROUNDED UP IN UNITED STATES.

MASQUERADING AS BRITISH OFFICERS. NEW YORK, Nov. 24. A concerted country-wide effort to round up "fake British officers," who, it is stated, liave imposed on the American public m many ways, is to be made by •the British officers now m New York, it was announced to-day. An investigation has disclosed, it was said, that at least fifty men posing as British officers are now operating throughout the country. A recommendation has been made tc Washington whereby' all' subjects of Great Britain, reported as undesirable by British officers, will . be .deported; Tlie British officers here are indignant over impositions practiced upon Ameri- : cans by alleged representatives of the army. One man is said to haye registered at one of New York's most exclusive hotels and succeeded m borrowing 70.000d01. from elderly women The imposters have been able to get unlimited credit m other hotels* 1 Oho alleged officer is said to have dined with American army officers upon representation that >he was a colonel m the British army, and actually took part m a review of troops.