TURKS CORNER IN SUGAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 8 November 1916, Page 6

TURKS CORNER IN SUGAR.

Two Turks who tried to make a small “comer” in sugar in Pans are the latest war curiosity. Sugar is to he deled out to retailers by a wiic;»sale syndicate, which delivers the goods against certificates speeding the maximum quantity, it occurred to one Isalem, a subject of the Sultan, that there was money to be made by approaching the men sent to take delivery of the sugar and inducing them to surrender the certificates. Isalem, it is alleged, successfully carried out this idea for a time, in conjunction "with a patriot, who sold the sugar ai a premium to confectioners and others The grocers’ men shielded themselves for a time by telling their employees that the delivery of the sugar had been postponed and that the certificates had been detained for examine tion. but the trick was soon found out. Isalem is under arrest, and his fellow Turk has been requested to hold himself in readiness to appear before the authorities. It is not explained how two Turks came to be carrying os business of any kind in the French capital.