BLACK MARKET RING IN EUROPE
CHARGES AGAINST THREE AMERICANS (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 16. Two United States Army officers and one American civilian are charged with operating a vast black market | ring throughout Europe, says the British United Press. The three are Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Fischer, Major Louis Dups, and Martin van Stock. Officials said that -the amount involved in jewellery, radium, paintings, perfumes, and motor-cars, in which the men had dealt, was so large that it was impossible to calculate the exact sum. Fischer was sentenced last month to a year’s hard labour and fined £5OO for conducting business with the enemy. Dups is under house arrest in Berlin, and van Stock is believed to be in the United States.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25061, 18 December 1946, Page 8
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