THE FRENCH WAR ON PROFITEERING
POLICE VISITS PRODUCE SOME RESULTS if Tilegraph-Preßi Asio<iiatlon-OoD]TlllM > Paris, September 17. The Government is applying the antiproliteering raeasures rigorously; There h.ive been a''hundred convictions in a month, in the Department of the Seine alone; ' The police are visiting shops and nointintr out unnecessarily high prices, and their visits often result jn prices liciiiic lowered. The profits are, however, so large that no punishment: stops some men takinir a risk, though fines may be 200.000 francs and imprisonment .may be five years. The Government's measures could not bo more drastic. . They include the publication of the names of. all offenders and notices posted on the doors of his dwelling, shop, or factory. Offenders also have to pay the wholo cost of the prosecution, and may bo deported from France for from two to ten years. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable .Assn.
EFFECTIVE MEASURES IN AMERICA FOOD PRICES FALL 15 PUR CENT. (Roc. September 19, 8.40 p.m.) New York, September 18. Since the anti-profiteering campaign' be?an there has been a general dcclinn of IS per cent, in food-prices throughout the United Stales.—Aus-.-N.H.'. Gable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 305, 20 September 1919, Page 7
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184THE FRENCH WAR ON PROFITEERING Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 305, 20 September 1919, Page 7
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