Alleged to have defrauded two exchange shops of approximately $20,000, a male Japanese named Yoshio Fujii was arrested by a Japanese Navy patrol at a fruit shop in North Szechuen Road at 10.30 p m. on Thursday, states the "Tairiku Shimpo."
The first fraud was said to have Been committed on June 2. when Fujii, wearing the uniform of a Japanese captain, swindled a sum of Y.2,761.80 from an exchange shop at 381 Tiendong Road under the pre. text of exchanging $6,400 into Japanese currency, Two weeks later, the same man, posing as a Japanese paymaster-lieutenant, telephoned to the exchange shop in the Marufuku Department Store at 237 Woosung Road and requested that a sum of money in Japanese currency corresponding to the value of $13.546 be sent to the Kasei Yoko at 345 Woosung Road, The money was alleged to have been sent there with a Chinese boy, He was met by the pseudo-lieutenant, who asked him to sceompany him io a military establishment, There he asked the boy, after taking the money from him, to wait a little and disappeared, The description of the man was given to the authorities and the alleged fraud was arrested On Thursday evening.
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