Questioned at yesterday's press conference, the Embassy spokesman confirmed the journal's report, but in reply to questions said that military scrip could not be used in Japan as the country was outside the sphere of military operations. These notes, however, could be exchanged at local Japanese banks for Treasury yen, or could be used in the payment for goods.
(Military scrip also was used in the payment of Chinese labour and, when it was suggested that this was the introduction of a new system of currency in occupied territory, no one Of the spokesmen denied it They were mostly used in the interior for payment for Japanese goods, it was pointed out, although the interpreter said that he saw Ruby Queen cigar-sttes being purchased with scrip in uhu.
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