GERMAN NAVY SCANDAL.
EXTRAORDINARY FRAUDS. SALE OF DOCKYARD STORES. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. Berlin', June '■). The police at Kiel, the principal German naval base, are investigating extraordinary frauds on the Imperial dockyards. High officials are suspected of passing out an immense quantity of stores, nominally for the use of the navy, but really for the purpose of selling them at nominal rates, the officials pocketing the amounts received. It is declared that sometimes two thousand pounds' worth a day was sold. -~ The police recovered £"5,000 from one of the wealthiest merchants in Kiel, who was implicated in the frauds. Similar frauds have occurred at the naval station at Wilhclmshaven.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13768, 5 June 1908, Page 5
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