The Archive · 1936

Briton Deported from Japan

Alleged to Have Committed Insurance Frauds Tokyo, May 23.

Oswald Solomon, 26, who gave his address as the Burlington Hotel, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, was deported from Japan yesterday as Jan undesirable allen, the Metropolitan Police Boord revealed to-day, He was placed aboard the s. President McKinley bound for Manila, via ports, at Yokohama last night.

As grounds for his ousting, the police ited Solomon's alleged failure to secure a visa on his British pass port and o Jong record of frauds he alleged to have "perpetrated Jagainst various insurance. firms, Solomon said he' was a dealer in women's. hats Aezurding to the police, Solomon was picked up at the Imperial Hotel fon an. anonymous "tip." Examined by Detective Kaoru Takahashi of the Foreign Affairs section, Solomon Is, id by the police to have admitted having "defrauded an unnamed Manila insurance company of $1,000 by falsely claiming that he had lost pearl necklace he had Insured with the firm. To do so, Solomon Is said to have admitted, he pretended that he was a business man and had Joined a golf club "to" secure vent."

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