APPEARANCE IN ITALY
HUNDREDS OF FORGED NOTES CIRCULATED BY REICHSBANK • Ecu. 10.3: a.m.) London, Oct. 26. 1 The Germans have circulated 50.000.I i)00 forged lire note? in Italy, says the
“Sunday Express.” The Reichsbank lest May printed the issue of this ■ amount for the Bank ot Italy, then | printed a further 50.0U0.0U0 duplicates, j The first forged note appeared in I Sicily where a Luftwaffe officer gave a shopkeeper a thousand lire note which he said was part of his pay. - , Hundreds of other forgeries appeared. I , and the Italians secured proof that the i : swindle was the work of the Reichs- _ bank. Despite the visit of Italian mis- - j sions to Berlin the Reichsbank denied . ! knowledge of the forgery—U.P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 27 October 1941, Page 5
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