Cheap wine blown up
NZPA Montpellier A group of angry French wine-growers blew up six million litres of cheap Italian wine yesterday at the port of Sete, near Montpellier. The. group blew up about 10 wine storage vats, including two owned by a wealthy Communist businessman, Mr Jean-Baptists . Doumeng, known as the “Red millionaire” because of his trade in foodstuffs with Eastern bloc countries. Just, before the attack, the group had intercepted a truck carrying 2000 litres of wine and emptied the wine into a nearby canal. In another development.
the police reported that goods train traffic between Spain and France would be blocked for two weeks’after saboteurs damaged the international train station at Cerbere in the Western Pyrenees. The saboteurs used acid and other flammable materials to wreck machinery designed to adapt trains to different railway gauges on either side of the Spanish-' French border. The incidents were the latest in a series of skirmishes in the “wine war” between France and Italy, caused by extensive imports of cheap Italian wine into France.
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