PROFITEERING.
« A FRENCH SCANDAL. (By Catla.—Pmsa Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received June 10th, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that at flu investigation of a scandal affecting sixty profiteers, the Food Controllers discovered that on obtaining permits to import a certain Portuguese wine, the gang altered the mark of origin anal imported a cheap Spanish substitute. They promised an underpaid food official £20,000,.thereby securing the surreptitious insertion into the original copy of the decree permitting the importation of certain articles the word "Mistelles," a sort of alcoholic wine. The Minister unsuspectingly signed the decree, and thousands of barrels of "Mistelles" were imported and sold in a few months, one member of the gang making a profit of £800,000.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16546, 11 June 1919, Page 7
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127PROFITEERING. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16546, 11 June 1919, Page 7
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