It is reported from Norway that German agents have bean discovered carrying explosives and disease germs in cans labelled meat, asparagus, and fruit, and also an incendiary apparatus purporting to bo meat packed in Buenos Ayres. A sensation has been caused by the finding of a quantity of similarly labeled tins at Hampstead. A grocer sold the tins, all of which wore returned on the ground that the meat turned block. Experts stats that tlia brand is unknown. Detectives ars investigating. The case is reported from Pstrograd of eleven, bricklayers on a non-war job who earned in one week over .£43 each. Nearly .£300,000 profit was realised by bazaars in New York, Boston, and Chicago on behalf of the Allies’ war charities.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 6
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122Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 6
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