The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-05-01

The most strDendous csunterfei:
ing operatio j the history of til I
world are con.-s to light in the ori
is great almost beyond reckoning.
and the method of forgery SO far
reaching. clever and dangerous that
all the finauciers OF the east are
alarmed.
'.se gigantic scheme. SO successful
ly carried out that no living man
knows its extent. is practically laid
AT :he door of the Japanese. Point
by point the fact that the little brown
men flooded all Manchuria and stuff
ed the Russo-Chinese bank with spur
ious money during the war with Rus
STA is being established by experts.
Sixteen million pounds. or 10000. 900.
CT the worthless stun is said to have
been detected. Nobody can guess
Low much more is extant.
japanese engravers and printers
have manufactured a counterfeit bank
note that has defied experts for two
years and puzzles them still. The
Russo-Chinese. the Hongkong and
Shanghai. the Imperial Bank of China
aud the Indo-Chinese bank-aIl these
have felt the sting OF the japanese
money viper What effect II will have
can as yet be only conjectured. Even
Europe has suffered.
Appeal has been made to the Jap
auese government 10 enact and en-
force stringent laws to exterminate
the swarm of shrewd conuterfeiters
in Nippon. and who elude the watch
ful officials of that empire 1t is
claimed scant attention has been paid
things to look after since her costly
conquest OF the Russian bear.
Now Doubt the Truth.
Experts from the Bank of England
and the American Bank Note COM
pany are now on the way to, China to
assist in ferreting out the tremen-
dors amounts of bogus money known
to be mixed with the genuine. Their
findings. If made public. are expected
- startle the world. They may be
u, n.omentous that they will be sup
Issssed to prevent the tottering Il
'A- 6tAoh-Iot
Asia. Bankers OF the orient feax.
s.sh good reason. that they are hol /.
Ing locked In their burglar-proof
waits. tens OF millions of pounds IN
counterfeit notes which they took fur
genuine. and which will spell ruin
when disclosed.
In Kobe has been located a counte--
feitinS plant which is said to have
cost 100000. 1t has ceased opera
tons. but worthless notes. so nea.
perfection that only the minutes:
fault can be found by adopts. are
declared to be still coming from the
land CT cherry blossoms. chrysanthe
NUNS and fighting men. Other plants
and Ingenious imitators are presum-
ed to be continuing the crooked work.
Last summer in the Russo-Chinese
bank doubt arose as to a certain note.
1t was for SO. Mexican money. and
numbered 1854. 1t was as perfect a
reproduction of the genuine original
as could be conceived The bank
experts pored for weeks over it and
a good note and could find not even
the slightest discrepancy. Yet the
bank note officials had strong cause
to believe 1t forgery.
Worst Fears Realized.
Similar doubts had come up In the
Imperial Bank of China and at the
Indo Chinese bank. Persistent Efforts.
However. revealed no visible peculiar
ity of note-certainly none suffi.
GENTLY fragrant to be observed in the
regular transaction of business.
Utterly in the dark. the bankers
turned to this side OF the water for
light To determine whether the sus-
i'ecsed notes were real or spurious
several of them and a number of I'M
questionably good ones were sent to
the American Bank Note company,
New York, and also to the Bank of
England, says the Cincinnati En-.
quirer.
CONSERVATION has been caused by
the replies sent to the oriental banks.
To what extent they have been re-
Get ring these counterfeits during
three years and how many of them
tn. banks themselves were and ara
h.. ling as supposedly good money
refoains to be learned. Sixteen mil
lioa pounds = $S0.00O.O00 is an