The Archive · 1938

Stolen Counterfeit Notes Seized

Having risked the punishment of theft, Doong Wu-zang finds himself in jail today on quite a different charge. He was sentenced' to ten months' imprisonment by the First Special District Court for having attempted to put into circulation counterfeit notes. Incidentally the notes, twenty new $1 notes of the Central Bank of China, were -stolen from a passenger on a steam launch some time ago, so he admitted in Court yesterday. He was arrested while attempting to use some of them át the Ta Chang money exchange and cigarette shop at) 1363 Gordon Read. The numbers printed on the notes were identical!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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