The recent appearance of many forged, altered or otherwise invalid bbankeotes, offered as payment In Chinese cabarets, hotels "and. shops, has concentrated attention on the means of detecting the spuriousness of certain types of notes, The paper, printing, correspondence of figures and writing,—kontegpondence of Chinese characters with English words; dates, places of issue, and over-slamping are factors considered.
One of the surest means of detect: ing the falseness of notes produced with spurious plates "or by raising the denomination of good notes, ix provided by microphotography, an' art practised by both professional and amateur photographers, In the Shanghai Municipal Police, Sub-Insp, Fernandez has given special lutiontion to this wone and has spent much time on the technique of this type of photography, which is also known as photomicrography, 'A favourite trick of forers is to aller the gures or figure wording fon genuine notes of small denomina: tion, some with inks and others by pasting printed figures over the original numbers, raising the figures from 1 {0 10, from 5 to $0, ete, the whole these alterations are easily detected and the notes can only be assed ina rush, China there is, further, changing the names of some of the provincial cities to "Shanghai on otherwise genuine notes that for political oF other reasons have been declared in valid, as for instance the Central Bank' of China 1926 Hankow issue.
Where out-and-out forgeries are concerned, the poor quality of the Paper often gives a clue, Quite apart from the paper, however, the ug frequently tolls id isa much easier check engraving. Practically all bad. notes bear defective printing—over-inking
jelected easily especially in the common fault and one which Background of the pictures on the The shading on the background is important. On genuine notes. it is done by means of thin lines very close to each ollier. The engraver in the first place finds this hard to copy and even the best forgers. are Hable to slight it. But even wh perfection is accomplished by the engraver, the printer using a han press finds it practically impossible fo. print with "skill The forger's runs, resulting "in very" irregular, broken lines and. smudged shading. This same fault may also be seen in the lines of the figures. "A. powerful of course, makes the defect ver been added to the sports programme during the year.
The enrolment at the Council's Schools for-foreign children in June, 1987. was 1,460.
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