Facilities for Travel in Occupied Areas Given Five members of an alleged Japanese military pass counterfeiting gang operating at House 11, Lane 512 Hankow Road who were arrested on Tuesday night by the Settlement police were brought before the First Special District Court yesterday on a writ of detention. A hearing of the case will be held on July 6.
One of the five persons is a woman They were arrested in a, tou bureau where, according to their advertisement, one can obtain Japanese military, passes to travel in occupied areas without having the trouble of consulting the Japanese authorities. The bureau has been undertaking to furnish necessary information to its clients as to the fares and other things in connection with their trips.
The police seized 25 new wooden chops bearing the names of vari provinces and cities and these, it wa alleged, were used by the gang to counterfeit Japanese military passes, as they looked similar to the official ones. One chop bearing the name of the Japanese Naval Landing Party was seized. Many blank application forms for obtaining fake passes were also found in the bureau
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