DUTCHMAN'S RUSE
HOAXED GERMAN FRONTIER GUARDS. “STRAIGHT FROM GOERING. By claiming that he came “straight from Goering,” a Dutchman crossed the German frontier with £IOO,OOO in bank notes, silver and valuables from the former Czechoslovakia, says the Daily Telegraph, London. Driving a German car, he received the greatest deference from soldiers and official of the Reich. Everywhere, he said, they jumped to attention when he waved his valueless papers and shouted, “Straight from Goering!” At the Dutch frontier the German guards hastened to open the barriers to let the car pass. All the people of Holland are laughing to-night. The hoax reminds them of the famous cobbler of Koepenick, near Berlin. Before the Great War he masqueraded as a high military personage simply by wearing an old uniform of the Guards.
The Dutch driver was arrested in Holland and police seized his silver the import of large quantities of which is prohibited. Later, however, he was released and allowed to keep the rest of the money and the valuables.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4812, 19 July 1939, Page 6
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