INORDINATE GAIN.
FRENCH , ROOT REMEDY.
WHOLESALE CONVICTIONS.
(Received 8.50 a.m.)
PAEIS, Sept. 17,
The Government is applying profiteering measures rigorously. There have been one hundred convictions in a month in the Seine Department alone.
The police visiting shops and pointing out the unnecessarily high prices often results in the prices being lowered.
The profits, however, are so large that no punishment stops some men taking the risk, though the fines may be up to two hundred thousand francs or imprisonment for five years.
The Government measures could not be more drastic, and include publication of the names of air offenders, while the record of convictions is posted on the doors of an offender's dwelling, shop, or factory. The offenders also pay the whole cost of prosecution and may be deported from Franco for a period of from two to ten years.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 19 September 1919, Page 5
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