PROFITEER HUNT IN BRITAIN
BIG DEMONSTRATION BY WORKERS
" UNWRITTEN LAW " IN JAPAN
By Telegraph-Press Af6ocia.tioii-Copyright London, September 21. Profiteer hunting has begun in earnest in Britain. Ten thousand workers, attended a demonstration in Hyde Park and sent a "Get rid of tho profiteers or get out" message to tho.Government. Tho Profiteer Tribunal has commenced operations. Residents in many districts have arranged open-air markets, whero goods are selling at half tho shop prices. —"Tho Times:" BILL IN VICTOEIA. Melbourne, September 23. Mr. H. S. W. Lawson, Premier o( Victoria, announced that the Government is preparing an Anti-Profiteering Bill—Press. Assn. EXTRAORDINARYIiiDER CASE IN JAPAN UNWB-ITTENLAW PLEADED FOK KILLING A PUOFITEER, London, September 22. The Tokio correspondent of tho "Express" reports an extraordinary murder case. Yamada, an official of the Food Department clubbed to death a rich rice importer. The murderer pleads high moral grounds. He slew tho man- becauso of his wickedness. Ho \was not fit to live, He was a profiteer, and an inciter of food riots. Yamada's'.counsel pleads the unwritten law. It appenrs that the victim brought five- thousand sterling to Yamada, hoping to obtain a concession by bribery.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. | .
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 308, 24 September 1919, Page 7
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191PROFITEER HUNT IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 308, 24 September 1919, Page 7
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