CURRENCY SMUGGLING
GERMAN BISHOP HEAVILY FINED Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright BERLIN, November 24. (Received November 25, at 10 a.m.) Dr Peter Legge,- Bishop of Meissen, was fined £B,OOO .for violating the currency law by smuggling out money from Germany; £3,200 of the fine was remitted, as he awaited a month for trial. If the remainder is nob paid lie will be imprisoned for three mouths The bishop’s brother, Theodore, was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude and fined £5.600 for complicity, and Dr Soppa, the bishop’s vicar-general, was sentenced to three years, and fined £5,600*
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Evening Star, Issue 22195, 25 November 1935, Page 11
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95CURRENCY SMUGGLING Evening Star, Issue 22195, 25 November 1935, Page 11
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