TRAFFICKING IN CURRENCY
1MMEDIATE ACTION taken Received Monday 8.20 p.m. J LONDON, March II. Illegal trafiicking in currency between Britain and Germany has reachj ed such enormous proportions that the ! British Government has asked the ; British Army authorities in Germany to act immediately to stanip it out, says the Daily Mail's Berlin correspondent. The smuggling of poimd notes into the Ccntinent by troops and civilians is to be stopped by police checks and searches at Cliannel ports. Officers ih charge of transit camps are to be empowered to hold an iminediate field courtmartial against offenders. One means vhereby troops are getting money into England has been under a "Say -"'t with fiowers" scheme. They cable instructions for fiowers to he delivered to their homes. Their relatives promptly resell the fiowers and bank the money. V
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 March 1946, Page 5
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