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Show $31 A POUND PAID FOR INFERIOR TEA By International News Service. BTORLIN, Dec. 15. Berlin is being flooded, says the Vossische Zeilung, with provisions purporting to come from Poland. Po-land. These goods, for some reason or other, are not subjected to the ordinary food regulations and are, therefore, sold a t extraordinarily high prices. A correspondent corre-spondent of the paper writes: "A few days ago I bought a quarter-pound quarter-pound packet of tea, said to have come from Warsaw. The price I paid was five marks. The packet consisted of two fairly thick sheets of tinfoil, inside a stout cardboard box, which was in a paper wrapping. A Russian quarter pound is equa.l to about 100 grams. "The packing, which I weighed, tipped the scale at eighty grams, so that there was only twenty grams of tea, as the whole packet only just weighed a quarter pound. Thus I paid at the rate of 125 mark.- (about $:u for one pound of very inferior tea." |