DEFRAUDING THE CUSTOMS
♦ A FRENCH SENSATION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, December 26. (Received December 27, at 9.15 a.m.) Customs frauds amounting to 20,000,000 francs, involving a number of well-known business firms, are reported. It is stated that a iiumbcr of foreign armorers and gunsmiths, taking advantage of the immunity of members of the military services from Customs dues on arms in their possession during demobilisation, took tho opportunity to send surplus stocks to Franco under the pretext that they wore the property of those immune from Customs dues, and disposed of them at great profit. Tho authorities are tracking offenders, and are hopeful of recovering a largo portion of the unpaid dues.— A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18159, 27 December 1922, Page 4
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