FAKE MABRIAGES.
GIRLS SMUGGLED TO U.S.A.
The smuggling of Polish girls into the L'nited States by fake marriages with American citizens has been discovered by the police, and the American Consulate has informed the State Department of the disclosures. A man giving his name as Morris Baskin, of New York, who used his American passport as a document with which to conclude eleven marriages, has fled from Poland. The Polish immigration quota to the United States is so low that the prirls eagerly accepted any ruse that might get them in. Gant leaders arranged with two rabbis for signing marriage contracts between the girls and American citizens, but some ceremonies were based 011 counterfeit passports.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 243, 14 October 1929, Page 3
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115FAKE MABRIAGES. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 243, 14 October 1929, Page 3
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