PROFITEERING SCANDAL
AN UNSCRUPULOUS GANG .EXPOSED. , (I?ec. Juno 10, 7.35 p.m.) London, June, 9. The "Chronicle's" Paris correspondent states that in the. course of invostigalins n 6enndal affecting sixty profiteers, tho Food Controllers discovered that they succeeded in obtaininp; permit; to import certain Portuguese wine. 'I'he gang altered tho mark of origin and imported n cheap Spanish suhstitute. They promised an -underpaid food official ,C2O;OQ0, thereby securing tho surreptitious insertion into the original copy of the decree permitting the importation of certain articles the word' "jristelles." a sort of alcoholic, wine. The Minister unsuspectingly signed it and thou&nnds of barrels of "Mistelles" were imported' and sold in. a few months.' One mem'ber of tho fan? made a profit of ,£800,000.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 220, 11 June 1919, Page 7
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122PROFITEERING SCANDAL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 220, 11 June 1919, Page 7
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