DODGING THE FRENCH.
GERMAN MONEY FOR COLOGNE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (RecciYed feeptem ber 11, It a.m.) LON DON, Scptember 10. According to the “ Daily Express,” twice* weeklf lately n Dutch Royal Mail aeroplane ha# landed at Lympne carrying a solitary foreign, passenger guarding large packets of new, unsoiled German currency notes. Each cargo is valued at fifty thousand million marks. After the Customs passport examinations have been completed, the packages are transferred to a ' British machine previously engaged by telegram. which rushes to C ologne at a speed of a, hundred miles an hour. The explanation of the mysterious aerial journeys is that enormous sums of German currency are conveyed from Rotterdam to Cologne with the alleged object of introducing the money into the occupied area to the French officials who are not en-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17142, 11 September 1923, Page 7
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