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LARGEST COUNTERFEIT PLANT IN CHINA ll AA L I KK: AT lON ’ S THROUG HOUT NATION.' PLANS MADE BY BEDS. United Pree» Asso. by El. TeJ Copyright SHANGHAI, Feb. 11. Thelargest counterfeiting plant operated hi China was located in Chinese territory three miles from the settlement by m.uucipa! detectives, after a three months' search, resulting in the at rest ot 1C 1 . Chinese and two Rtsoh'is, the sel/.un of an elaborate plant. ICO,OOO doi Jars worth of completed notes of the Government, Bank of China, and perfect capper plates, ui addition to unfinished, notes amounting to 1,000,000 dollars. 'The .plant was discovered in a cellar beneath a deserted farmhouse, entrance to win..'a was' obtained through a tunnel connected with a’ house 400 yards distant. A member of the gang confessed that the piant had been in operation for two year's, maim lad ur.'.r.g notes of niiuiv Chinese banks, which wore distributed in the interior by agents with ramiications throughout China. It is stated that flic plans Were made by Russians, who me believed o bo Soviet agents specially operating for the nurpo r e of flooding the country with spurious notes \o dis credit the Government bank. • •-.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11130, 13 February 1930, Page 5
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