FORTUNE FROM OLD ARMY CLOTHING
REMARKABLE DISCLOSURES' IN A SLANDER CASE. Judgment for £500 damages was recently given in Mr. Justice Darling's Court in London against Mr. Marcel Landau, who was stated to have made £200,000 in two years out of deals in cast-off Army clothing. The plaintiff was a Mr. Mazza, who alleged that defendant had slandered, him over a transaction in old Army boots. During cross-examinatioi\ Mr. Landau denied that he had procured for tho purpose of this action a document ho had produced showing that lie was liable to bo called for the French Army, Ho got tho document because Mr. Mazza had brought about rumours that he (Landau) was an Austrian. When war broke out had you GO,OUU second-hand Army overcoats winch yci had bought from tho British Government ?-"No; about 30,000." Had you bought those from the Government through Marchinski?"Through Colman Jonas." What did you pay for the coats.''—' "ss. 6d., but they were old." Did you resell the whole of them to the British Government for Kitchener's Army at 16s. to 19s. per coat?"Not all; I believe about 20,000 "Mr. Landau said they were "the pick and he had spent money m renovating them. "It is a very speculative business," ho added.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 82, 31 December 1917, Page 6
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208FORTUNE FROM OLD ARMY CLOTHING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 82, 31 December 1917, Page 6
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