FOREIGN MONEY FORGED HERE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 166, 4 July 1908, Page 4

FOREIGN MONEY FORGED HERE.

Probably, because the system of police supervision over the ordinary individual is exceedingly lax. by comparison with most Continental countries, England has lon;,' been a favourite resort of foreign counterfeiters and coiners. Thus, the man arrested the other day at (Iraveseud, who had in his possession plates and dies for forging French lientc coupons, is but the latest addition to ,i long list of predecessors. There was, for instance, the case ot the Pole, Kavowski, who set up a private printing press in the Seven Dials, London, whence emanated spurious Austrian and Hungarian, notes of the face value of many thousands of pounds. Discovery came about through the arrest of a woman confederate in Vienna. She hud a parcel of the counterfeit money on her, and when pressed made full confession. la another case, forged Jlalian notes to the face value of about Hi:],!)"", were manufactured in a garret in Saffron Mill.

'The rent of the room they used was only eighteenpenee a week, yet the forgers must needs pay it with their counterfeits, although they had plenty of good money by them at, the time. This led to their detection, followed by deportation and long terms of imprisonment in their own country.

The liussiiiu rouble-note forgeries, brought to light in 1S7!I, were conducted on similar lines, but the operations of the forger- were on a far larger scale, ami they continued them for eight or nine years before being detected. During that lengthy period spurious paper money of the face value of between CSO.IKIO and C'.10.000 was made and put in circulation. The greater portion of this was printed at a private house in Arlington Uoad, Tulse Hill, London, a most respectable middle-class