A FRENCH SCANDAL.
WHOLESALE PROFITEERING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrljht. 1 London, Juno 9. The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent Btates that investigations are being made into a scandal affecting sixty profiteers. The food controllers discovered that they had been obtaining to import certain Portuguese wine. The gang altered the mark of origin and imported a cheap Spanish substitute. They promised an underpaid food official £20,000, thereby securing the surreptitous insertion into the original copy of the decree permitting the importation of curtain articles the word "mistelles," a sort of alcoholic wine. A Minister unsuspectingly signed the order, and thousands of barrels of "mistelles" were imported and sold in a few months. One member of the gang made a profit of £Boo,ooo.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1919, Page 5
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121A FRENCH SCANDAL. Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1919, Page 5
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