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Show GERMAN PROFITEERS ACTIVE AT COBLENZ COBLEXZ, Dec. 6. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) American intelligence officers in the occupied area recently started a campaign against German food speculators, who were held responsible for the high prices of food in Coblenz and vicinity. The first day of tho "roundup" twenty profiteers were deported to unoccupied un-occupied Germany, with instructions not to return. As an example of the nature of the dealings carried on by the speculators, or "Sehiebers," as they are called in German, an incident is cited by the Americans of a carload of starch shipped into Coblenz. It cost the original purchaser pur-chaser 40,000 marks. The car remained untouched in the railroad yards while it was sold from one man to another, each time at an increase in price, until the carload was finally disposed of for 80,000 marks, just double what the first purchaser pur-chaser paid. |