PRUSSIAN GRAIN FRAUDS
HIGH OFFICIALS ARRESTED. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Amsterdam, August 18. Tho arrests for the Prussian grain frauds include high officials in the Imperial Wheat Office and the president of tho Wheat Office at Tuchel, Prussia. . [The "Berliner Tageblatt" stated . that nearly one hundred arrests were made in Berlin and West Prussia in connection with extensive grain frauds. Large quantities sent to Berlin \reie branded as machine parts. Potatoes were sold at 300 per cent, profit. An innkeeper's wife, who is among those arrested, was found to bo possessed of 100,000 marks provided for the purposo of bribery.] RAPACIOUS DEALERS CAUSE RIOTS. CRouter's Telegram.) (Rec. August 19, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 18. _ Riots occurred in Schleswig-Holstein in consequence of doalers charging one sovereign each for rabbits: The police, after many people had been injured, seized the rabbits, .sold them at six shillings each, and arrested the dealers.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2855, 21 August 1916, Page 5
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149PRUSSIAN GRAIN FRAUDS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2855, 21 August 1916, Page 5
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