CUSTOMS FRAUDS
SENSATION IN FRANCE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, December 26. Customs frauds amounting to 20,000,000 francs, involving a number of well-known business firms, are reported. It is stated that a number of foreign armourers 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 France under tho pretext that they were 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 large portion of the unpaid dues.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18747, 28 December 1922, Page 5
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