COUNTERFEIT NOTES
CHARGE AGAINST RUSSIA (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Feb. 26. West Berlin Socialists to-day accused Russia of printing counterfeit German westmarks, states the Associated Press. The official party newspaper, “Berliner Sozial Deniokrat,” said that fake money was being printed in Leipzig in the Soviet zone on stereotypes sent from Russia. Tile, newspaper added that notes in five and 100 mark denominations ivere actually printed in a secret department of the Leipzig Bank. They were difficult to detect, but the paper was of poorer quality than genuine westmarks, which were printed in the United States. The newspaper declared that the counter-feiting was being supervised by the reparations inspection branch of the Soviet Zone Control Commission. Presumably the money was intended to finance Soviet zone purchases from West Germany. Some had already been passed in the Ruhr coal and steel area.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 114, 27 February 1950, Page 3
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