IMMENSE PROFITS.
DISHONEST FRENCH CONTR4CTORS. CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE TREASURY. PAKIS, March 12. An official report, supplied to the Chamber of Deputies, alleges that there is in existence a conspiracy among contractors to defraud the Treasury. One contract for thirty-seeven sub marine motors gave a profit of 95 per cent. Battleships costing Great Britain a million and a-half cost France over two million pounds.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3138, 15 March 1909, Page 5
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64IMMENSE PROFITS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3138, 15 March 1909, Page 5
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