SENDING JUTE TO GERMANY
A SHIPPING MAGNATE'S FRAUDS. Rome, May 10. The arrest of Signer Parodi, the shipping magnate, on charges of trading with the euemy, and (lie seizure of his documents, show that he dispatched huge supplies of juto to Germany via Cliiasso in order to defraud tiie Customs. The consignments were disguised ns hemp and low. There was a great fire early in 1917 at the national ropemaMng manufactories at Cornigliano, and a large quantity, of enemy-owned jute was destroyed.' Pnradi falsified the accounts and secured the insurance money a 6 though the jute belonged to an Italian. Parodi was recently criticised for keeping ft large number of merchant steamers .idle at Genoa and obstructing Allied triUhc— ius.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 200, 13 May 1918, Page 6
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122SENDING JUTE TO GERMANY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 200, 13 May 1918, Page 6
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