Red China, hard up for dollars, got some very simplyby postal money order.
Pickup. In April 1950, Honolulu post-office officials began to notice that money orders made out by Filipinos in Hawaii and Guam were not being cashed in the Philippines, as they were supposed to be; instead, they were coming back with "chops" (post officialese for seals), showing that they were being handled by Hong Kong banks. U.S. post-office officials got suspicious, sent Inspector R. Frank Ogden, 53, to Hong Kong to investigate.
A Hong Kong money changer, who owed the police...
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