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Show I Al. KA if Undervaluation of Imported Im-ported Laces Caused Heavy Loss N'cw,.York,. June 27. Extensive '.(rantUs o against', v the -government,! through the lindrv.ilinUioii oV importations impor-tations of 'Wees from Syria, haVe boen disclosed in proceedings before the board of llio United States general appraisers. ap-praisers. The undervaluations nre declared de-clared to hne caused the loa of hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of dollars to the . treasury department within the Inst iH ten years. VmWM Most of tho laces arc from Beirut, lH and arc assessed at the high rate of GO H por cent ad valorem. The complaints H from certain dealers lu Now Vmk H were mndo some tlmo ago to Franklin H MacVcogh, secretary of tho treasury, H (hat several handlers of these wero H selling them to tne trade choapcr than H they could be bought in Beirut. H The secretary sent a goverpmen' mM special agent from Europe to the b Hl rlnu lace center to investigate. Tho jH investigation, it Is said, disclosed that SU toruiln exporters had been sending IH gnoil.s into the American market ik IH gross undervaluations. The frauds, it IH was said, were practiced by means of WM prlvuto invoices, Intended to deceive mW the ctiBtoms officials on this Side of mM tho Atlantic. H |