GERMAN'S SECRET
TRANSPORTING OF MONEY
(By Air Mall, from "The Post's" London Representative.) LONDON, September 1. An ingenious method of smuggling money out of Germany has been revealed at Harwich. Customs officers were called to deal with a considerable quantity of hops which had arrived from Germany. The owner of some of the bales had travelled in the same ship as the hops. He told the Customs officers that all the money he possessed was hidden in one of the bales. When the bale he indicated was opened £5000 in Bank of England notes of large denominations, was discovered, secreted in small tubes in the centre. The owner did not reveal how he obtained such a large sum of English money in ' Germany. He stated, however, that having got it, he thought of consigning the hops to himself in Harwich, after secreting the money in one of the bales. Having collected his wealth, the man is now on his way to Kenya, j where he intends to settle. There is no law against bringing t money into England in such a manner, but rigid precautions are taken in Germany to prevent money leaving [the country.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 10
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195GERMAN'S SECRET Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 10
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