From the pages of the South China Morning Post this week in 1959
The police admitted seizing a large number of forged banknotes in various denominations, but had no comment on whether the counterfeit US notes seized were printed in Manchuria.
Chinese reports said they were the work of about 100 Japanese master printers specialising in banknote printing, who had been held prisoner since the end of the second world war.
The printing works in Manchuria printed money for the Japanese occupying forces and was reportedly still printing notes for the Chinese government.
A representative of the US Treasury Department in Hong Kong denied knowledge of the origin of the counterfeits, adding that the Hong Kong police were investigating.
Macau's new governor, Lieutenant-Colonel Jaime Silverio Marques, arrived in the Portuguese enclave with his wife and four children on board the SS Fatshan, which had made a special trip for the occasion.
