Japanese Wiles
How Japanese used fraudulent methods to take money off the British interned at Hongkong was described in an interview by the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. H. Davies, who is staying at Christchurch. He said that on the day the British were allowed to go to the banks to draw money, the Japanese would scour the city for dirty, damaged paper money. This would be paid to the British at the banks, and then when they went to change it into Japanese yen they would be given only 30 or 40 per cent, of what they surrendered “because their paper money was in such a filthy condition.” “That practice,” said Mr Davies, “soon ate great holes in the bank accounts of many unfortunate people.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 68, 3 January 1947, Page 8
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132Japanese Wiles Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 68, 3 January 1947, Page 8
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