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Show DEMAND FOR LUXURIES IN ENGLAND DECREASES London, uct. 22. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of the Associutod Press.) Since Chancellor Austen Chamberlain introduced intro-duced his last budpet there has been a murked reduction In the retail sale of champagne and cigars In ljngiand. Cigar merchants say that during the recent months clearances from bond and Importations from Cuba have practically ieen suspended. The pub-lie, pub-lie, It Is slated, refuses buy al the hiii prices necessitated bj the aea-v) duty and the Inflated cost of the tobacco to-bacco i In 1914 a really good Havana cigar could be bought ut 40 shillings to 50 shillings a hundred but today the cost lis more than five pounds a hundred, 1 Wliic mert hunts arc fi little surprised sur-prised at the decline In the sale ofi chumpagDQj as prices have not been .substantially Increased in many) cases growers have shouldered a part lof the duty Imposed by the bud-t-f In Hie hope of maintaining the English demand oo |