NAVVIES DUPED BY CLEVER PARIS GANG

Shannon News, 8 November 1929, Page 4

NAVVIES DUPED BY CLEVER PARIS GANG

Ingenious swindlers have been using the proposals for the construction of the Channel Tunnel to deceive hundreds of ignorant navvies from various Central European countries, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mailfl Posing- as official agents recruiting labour for,tho tunnel, they demand- £lO to £ls sterling from each workman for registration and pas-spart dues, - and then gave them merely travellers’ passports entitling them to say in France for three months, but not to work

The victims wore met in Paris by other members of tho gang, who pretended to be indignant at the shabby trick played on the workmen and exhorted further sums for the alleged purpose of putting their papers in order. All the unfortunate workmen received, however, were cleverly forged working permits which pvhon shown to the police caused their holders to be tent to prison. The police, however, have now discovered the fraud. The workmen, if they can iirid satisfactory guarantees, will be given working permits, and members' of the bogus immigration society and the ‘officials’ who aided them, are being sought.