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...grave and dignified little man is M. Léon Pollier, Chairman of La Société Franciase de Sucrerie. Only a short while ago he was Professor of Economic Law at the University of Lille...
...completely understood the highly complex method of transferring Reparations "in kind" from Germany to the Allies. Last week Parisian gendarmes clapped M. Pollier into jail. People' said he had used his unusual knowledge to cheat the French Government out of some 80,000,000 francs worth of German sugar paid as Reparations in kind...
Last week it appeared that Professor Léon Pollier's modest little $3,000,000 sugar swindle had turned principally on the fact that only 15 overworked clerks are employed by the French Treasury to handle the staggering minutiae of "payments in kind...
When payments for the first lot fell due, the first Pollier company was declared unable to meet its obligations to the Treasury, but a second and ostensibly stronger company was formed to assume the debt and contract for still more sugar. This procedure was repeated several times. Meanwhile the sugar was sold, mostly in England, and the profits were salted away outside of France...
Last week the last Pollier corporation was found to possess only a rented office, some hired furniture and not a sou in the bank. Friends of Professor Pollier sent bouquets and potted flowers to brighten his cell, declared that he is innocent, the mere dupe of a master swindler in London, one "Michael Neutski, a Russian...
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