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Show SHOT WHISKY THROUGH PIPES j British Distillery Firm Accused Ac-cused of Sending Liquor Underground to Avoid Payment of Revenue. LONDON. Feb. K gigantic I scheme upon the part of a firm of dis ! tillers to defraud the r'venne service is ' reported to bve been unearthed bv in i temal revenue officers. The latter, it i asserted, discovered a system of under ' ground pipes through whieh whisky was ) conveyed from the distillery to the duty-raid warehouse, when it was distrirtnted to the trade, thin escaping the tax of $2. 7.1 a gallon. The authorities are said to have de I manded the payment of a fine of $300,-000 $300,-000 upon the smuggled liquor. The matter mat-ter will be brought up in Parliament. |