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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

£700,000 BANK RAID

PLOT.

TUNNEL BORED TO A STRONG ROOM,

Berlin, Jan. 28. Warsaw police, making a big raid in quarters of the city where criminals of all kinds hide them- selves, secured a document that has surprised them exceedingly.

It was a skilfully drawn plan of the electric wires which form- ed the burglar alarm at the strong room of the Czenstochau branch of the National Bank of Poland.

The document was sent to the manager of the bank at Czensto- chau. He kept the matter to him. self but watched carefully,

One day several cashiers sug- gested an alteration of the wires serving the alarm signal of the strong room.

It was then discovered that a hand of international bank burg lars had been platting secretly for six months with three cashiers of the bank to raid the strong rooms in which lay

notes and gold to the value of over £700,000,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1930.

INCOME TAX FRAUDS.

SOME “DISQUIETING

FEATURES.""

Mr.

OUTLOOK FOR THE

CHAMPIONS.

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"Disquieting features" regarding Messrs. Htinson & Yam Man 1 Income Tax frauds perpetrated Mr. Aitch Aitch during 1925 are referred to in the Mr. Megenr Report of the Comptroller and Messrs. Liang and Wong Auditor-General, wheh, with the Dunbar

Mr. Own. Appropriation Accounts for the Mrs. Pearce Customs and Excise, Inland Re Mr. Eve venue. and Post Office, were Mr. published recently,

Hau Un Mr. Wong Ping-shun M. Mac Messrs. Beith and Heard Mr. Glehh Mr. Heard

The Comptroller states that the measures taken to guard against fraudulent claims for repayment He of Income Tax were explained to the Public Accounts Committee in 1925, when they were informed that the Board hoped that the new procedure then introduce would prevent any further frauds.

Mr. Wayfoong Messrs. Tester & Abraham Messrs. Bellamy & Gordon. Mr. C. M. Leitao ....... Messrs. Bennett and Cave Messrs. Toeg & Priestley Mr. Ho Sal-man Mr. H. S. Chan Mr. Widdecombe Mrs. N. Hashim

Successful Jockeyn.

"The statement of losses append- ed to this account includes two cases of fraud under this head which occurred before the new procedure waa in operation," states the Report. "Two others which Mr. A. J. P. Heard have recently come to my notice Mr. F. Noodt resulted from frauds perpetrated Mr. T. L. Wong at a later date, and will affect the Mr. L. P. Quincey

Mr. C. Encarnacao accounts for 1929. One of these presents disquieting features, and has led the Board to institute still further proceedings.”

Turning to the question of de-

As the booty in sight was very valuable the burglars could afford to spend considerable sums in pre-ficiencies in the acounts of collect paration. They paid heavily for tors, the Report states that there possession of the ground-floor flat were 29 cases during the year in the house adjoining the bank, under review as compared with 21 and from this dat dug au under- in 1927. ground passage to the lank vaults.

They had collected in the flat af large quantity of oxygen and ample supplies of the most modern apparatus and tools for piercing the walls and doors of the strong

rooms.

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Mr. V. M. Haimovitch Mr G. U. da Roza Mr. W. HM Mr. La G. Frost Mr. Y. S. Chang Mr. W. Howling Mr. E. C. Leighton Mr. S. Y. Liang MR. H. Charles Mr. G. Harriman Mr. Ho Sai-man Dr. S. T. Wong Mr. A. E. Arnold

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Dealing with fraud and evasion, the Report mentions a number of receipts resulting from pecuniary settlements made with taxpayers who had voluntarily confessed to the Report states that the G.P.0. past frauds, and in accordance have depended for the supply of with the policy of the Board were such equipment upon the output not being prosecuted.. "In two of of five manufacturing firms whose The three cashiers were arrest-

the cases," states the Report, the quotations since 1923 have been the prices settlement involved £500,000 or based generally on ed, but how many of the profes-more, while in several others, scheduled to what is known as the sional burglars have fallen into

amounts ranging from £200,000 to London Automatic Agreement of the hands of the police is not £375,000 have geerved to the Re that year, which had become a known,

venue. In some cases it has not more or less accepted datum line been possible to enforce full res-for charges for other automatic titution, and compositions have plant. been agreed to as preferable to legal proceedings."

A letter written to a friend by one of the cashiers contains . boast that the enterprise was on the eve of success and that this bank robbery would amaze Europe.

WOMAN PAYS SMUG- GLING FINE, £20,000.

JEWELS TAKEN INTO U. S. YEARS AGO.

all

was

the

"When this

agreement negotiated, it was recognised by the Post Office that at the outset the manufacturing firma would incur abnormal' initial expenses, which would be reflected in prices charged to the Past Office, and substantial reductions were ex- pected when in due course these preliminary expenses should have been exhausted or written states the Report

OJE.**

13 Months' Salary. Department expenditure in the Inland Revenue exceeded the grant by £398,674, according to the Re- port. Ordinary receipts realised £35,394 more than the estimate for Appropriations in aid, but as this sum has been surrendered to the Exchequer, an excess vote for the gross deficit will be required. In the opinion o. the Pustmaster- The Report attributes the excess General, the reductions made in New York, Jan. 30.

expenditure to the payment within recent years have not been Two of the heavlest fincs ever the financial year of thirteen month-great as should have been possible levied for smuggling in the portly instalments of the salaries of the and the Report discloses that fol- of New York were paid to-day by staff.

a wealthy New York Woman, Mrs. Frank Stores, who paid over £20.000, and

Mr. Lascu Wabacher, a rich fierman-American from San Francisco, 'who was mulcted of £14,600.

These sums include the foreign purchase price of the articles, plus duty and a 100 per cent. fine for failure to declare.

It was a £3,600 pearl necklace which the rich German-American bought in Europe for his wife, and which he failed to declare, that got him into trouble.

Mrs. Storrs's

involved jewellery which she brought into the country several years ugo without declaring. Her lawyers pleaded the Statute of Limitations.

case

Washington authorities decided, however, that despite the Statute of Limitations, when smuggled goods are taken out of the coun- try and then brought back again. the smuggler becomes liable to the original penalties.-Reuter.

MOTOR-CAR BEATS THE BLUE TRAIN.

20 MINUTES IN FRONT ON 850 MILES RACE.

In a race for a wager a British light car beat the famous "blue train" from St. Raphael, on the Riviera, to Calais, by 20.minutes.

The journey by train is 850 miles.

Four young Englishmen mode the bet. The challenger-the man who took the railroad-bought a ticket for Calais, and shook hands from his sent in the train with the driver of the car-a Rover light six-wagering that he would be in Calais first.

They next met when the Rover was waiting at the platform for the train to pull in at the quay- side station at Calais.

The motorist was fingering his wallet in an expectant mood; but the amount of the wager. has not; been disclosed.

He was dead tired, and, after declaring that he had lost 40 minutes owing to fog and rain on the way, went straight to bed.

The driver of the car was Mr. rartment of the Rover Company. Bennett, of the experimental de- and with him was Mr. H. D. Noble, another official of the company.

So

lowing negotiations with the firms, The Post Office ended the year reductions during the period of under review with a surplus of contract amounting in value £190.558. Referring to the supply not less than £1,750,000 are anti- of telephone exchange equipment, cipated,

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