PROFITEERS TO DIE?
The text of a French Bill by which it i ' 11 proposed to guillotine profiteers is worded as follows ■ A i,v ••pecuvtor or profiteer convicted o! lu.c'ug up •' .„d prices by fraudulent manoeuvres or any o her means is to by punished by death, and the execution is to be carried out within twenty-four hours of the sentence being pronounced." The Bill is drafted by M. Baslv and M. ?' 1 ' bo , l h l of whom are miner? and J'," les ', e - v al "* intensely serious about I getting the law changed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17276, 27 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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95PROFITEERS TO DIE? New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17276, 27 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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