FOOD RACKETEERS
SEVERE PENALTIES SOUGHT IN COMMONS FLOGGING & EXECUTION SUGGESTED. KING'S ENEMIES MAKING HUGE PROFITS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. Members of the House of Commons following Major Lloyd George (Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Ministry), joined in a chorus of denunciation of Black Market racketeers, demanding very heavy penalties, including flogging and execution. The speakers denounced “black marketeering” as the highest and most sinister form of sabotage, which aroused deep public indignation, because those who were tantamount to the King’s enemies were making huge fortunes out of the war. Mr A. Beverley Baxter (Con. M.P. for-Wood Green), said “black marketeering” was only one expression of the plague of dishonesty sweeping the country. The “Evening News” says the amendments to the Defence Regulations provide for imprisonment for 10 years or more and also for heavy fines for Black Market racketeers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 4
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146FOOD RACKETEERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 4
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