FORGED NOTES.
TWO NEGROES DEALT WITH. BY CABLE -PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. Received 10.25 a,in. to-day. .BERLIN, Jan. 24. Two negroes named M acorn be and Munume, from the Oameroons, were sentenced to eighteen and to thirty-six months’ imprisonment respectively for foiging Bank of England notes, for German circulation. The negroes declared that the notes were intended to be used as sinews of war to overthrow the British rule in the Oameroons. Firms .receiving orders for watermarked paper became 'suspicions, and informed the British coinsuilate. which forwarded them £SO each.—Sydney Sun Gable. >
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 January 1927, Page 5
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90FORGED NOTES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 January 1927, Page 5
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