CURRENCY SMUGGLING
. PRIESTS AMD NUNS VICTIMISED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, March 29. Following a series of raids on convents and monasteries throughout the country, a number of Roman Catholic priests, monks, and nuns have been arrested on charges of currency smuggling to the extent of £20,0,000. It is understood that the accused are all victims of an international swindler,who offered to transfer the money over the frontier by what he declared were legal means. The swindler’s victims included the head of the Franciscan Order in Germany and a well-known bishop. There has been much indigo nation because the police entered the nuns’ cells. *
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Evening Star, Issue 21993, 1 April 1935, Page 9
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104CURRENCY SMUGGLING Evening Star, Issue 21993, 1 April 1935, Page 9
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