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Show SWINDLERS PASS CONFEDERATE BILLS BERLIN, K. b 4, Another Issue of United States confederate money, In $10 bills, has been put on the market mar-ket in Germany, and several proml-nent proml-nent merchants have been victimized jto the extent of thousands of dollars. Scores of others have accepted the bad bills In smaller amounts. A fow months ago the confederate money, suspiciously bright and clean, was passed quietly around to unsuspecting unsus-pecting shopkeepers and to even a few ' jdsitlng Americans who display..) icarclettaitcs in making change At, h:it time a warning wa- is u.-.l by the ! banks and the new spapers advised hreadsrs to use discretion I Tho lateat known victim Is a merchant mer-chant w ho sold a lull of goods for $00 In cash and accepted the Confederate currency Ho appealed 'ri thi American Ameri-can Association of Commerce and Trade In Berlin. The association, as a result of these raids on German marks and German goods by the Coiucdcrato morn y vendors, ven-dors, has issued a warning to its i lit n-tele n-tele declaring "the only way to avoid Uh losses ix to effect all payments for goods through a bank, especially where foreign currency comes Into Question1 German merchants recently ulso have been accepting counterfeit German Ger-man 50-mark notes, nunc; of which are still in circulation although the police succeeded ' in cajtturlng the counterfeiters |