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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 24, 1988.

BOGUS "S OS CALLS" DUPE BRITONS

London, Sept. 11 land suddenly on business before

the S O S could be answered. Scores of Britons, whose relatives. have been abroad on holiday or business trips,, have been victimised by the authors of an ingenious racket.

“Your loved one is ill. Am look- ing after him (or her). Wire cash at once."

That is the message, ending with a name and the address of a post office, that has been received by them in the last few weeks.

The French police, who have taken the matter up, are satisfied that the messages emanate from a well-organized gang who make a point of studying the movements of foreigners arriving in France.

A trap reply was sent after consultation with the police, and when the agent of the gang ar÷| rived at the bank to collect the $1,000 'demanded he was arrest ed by an inspector of the Surete Nationale.

He has made a statement in- criminating 18 persons living in France and England, who are sup- posed to be the principals in the racket.

It has been found that the gang had an account with the Paris branch of a well-known English bank amounting to nearly a quar- ter of a million sterling.

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It has agents in England who SIR OSWALD MOSLEY

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GIVES HIS VIEWS

London, September, 16.

keep them posted with details about likely victims setting out for the Continent. As soon as the traveller arrives the gang knows the name and address of hla - next-of-kin, or any other "In the last war, we were asked person likely to respond prompt-to fight to secure self-determination. ly to ani S. OS for cash.

In this war, we will be asked to fight to stop self-determination. Was'nt it clear that some people wanted war on any excuse and at Sir Oswald Mosley, any price?" British Fascist leader, exclaimed When the amount demanded ex-during a Fascist meeting this even- ceeds the limit for telegraphic]ing.

The amount demanded varies with the financial position of the person appealed to, and on this point the gang appears to have the most detailed information

transmission the appeal suggests He added that Great Britain telegraphic,- orders to a bank to should enter into a conflict only if | remit the specified sum to their the British people were actually -agents-for-payment to the person threatened. Britain should fight only

sending the appeal.

in defence of her own people, he as serted:

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He paid homage to the "courage- In one of the cases reported to ous act" of Mr. Neville Chamberlain "the police" "nearly £2,000 was re-in going to Berchtesgaden to meet mitted from London.

Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler. He also In another case the supposed lauded the Prime Minister's "good sick man was called 'back to Engsense.

on

Four Died For Her Beauty

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The child's death was an acci- of... Montmartre, whose

dent, but it marked the beginning powers of fascination of a ruthless feud in which six! caused four murders within the last men lost their lives.. "four years, was the tragic heroine First the Stefani brothers; allegedly responsible for the shoot- of another underworld tragedying, were shot down by Antoine yesterday, when her latest lover, Foata, Madeleine's. lover, in Alfred Smila; was shot to death in venge for the death of her baby. Marseilles by Pierre Usai, a rival pr for her favours.

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