GERMAN DOCKYARD FRAUDS.
HIGH OFFICIALS SUSPECTED. LARGE SUM OF MONEY RECOVERED. Received June 4, 8.40 a.m. BERLIN, June 3. The Kiel police are investigating extraordinary Imperial dockyard frauds. High officials are suspecced of passing an immense quantity of stores, ostensibly for the use of the navy, and really selling them at nominal rates. Sometimes two thousand pounds worth a„day was sold. The police recovered seventy-five thousand pounds from one of the wealthiest merchants implicated. Similar frauds are said to have occcurred at Wilhelmshaven.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19080605.2.16.14
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9107, 5 June 1908, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
83GERMAN DOCKYARD FRAUDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9107, 5 June 1908, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in