Japanese Invasion Note

THE Japanese invaders of the South Seas evidently expected to repeat their highly profitable burglar meth ods of Malaya, Burma and Hong Kong— namely, to seize all the silver currency and issue in its place worthless notes, produced by a printing machine and issued without guarantee.

Not many prisoners were taken in the Solomons—the fanatical Japs preferred to die in heaps on the beaches —but on one of the few who surrendered there

was found some paper money, obviously prepared for issue to the conquered people of British countries.

Here (actual size) is a photograph of one of the notes. It was printed on fairly tough paper. All except the leters “OC” are printed in mauve. The “OC” letters, whose meaning is unknown, are in red.

The face value of the note, presumably, is 6d. —although why the term “i shilling” should be employed, instead of “6d.”, only the Japanese can explain.