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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OA-DLK ASSOCIATION. I?rill! IRON' SKIZKD. SHADY TR AXSACTIOXS. 1 PARIS, Jan. 17. 'I lit l I , 'i , cmicli police have seized ten UioUsiiinl lens o! iron .stored at Dunkirk, pendino an inquiry as to its destination. It is aliened that the iron came from the Ruhr as reparations in kind and that it was legally delivered in the devastated areas and alter wards sent to Dunkirk. It appear.-, to he established that -the oripitial shippine; hills issued in the Ruhr authorized the sendin-o of it to Dunkirk. ' U has been further .stated that since iXove.ni her there have been daily delict a - ies of similar iron at Dunkirk and -i.-. hundred tout ■■vero exported theie.s tv. Jana it.
The Paris agents concerned in the forwarding of the goods explain that the iron was sent to Dunkirk for storage, because there was no accommodation elsewhere ; also that the Japanese consignment was an error, the Ruhr iron having been sent in mistake for
Lorraine iron. The purchaser for whom the agents acted is said lo lie an American.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1924, Page 3
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181GERMAN ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1924, Page 3
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