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Show GERMANS MAKE BOGUSARTICLES;! BERLIN, Nm 25. 'i Correspond-J .Mice ) Gorman manufacturers have! flooded the markets here with imitations imita-tions of American English and! French wares, some so rle erl made II lis difficult to delect tliein.. but others' 'of an almost ludicrous chmslness. A purchase who goes into a lobar-j CO shop and asks for a standard tng- j llish or American cigarette probably i Will he handed a package with a label j j resembling the liade mark of tin original The price will be much less' j in! I i que nl ; . pi.'S-d Willi I he hai - I gain, the customer puts the box in hLs' pocket without closely examining. Ii Aftex he discovers that ho has a Cler-1 man cigutette i'he few Imported tobaccos on sale are very expensive and those which' nave not been smuggled m hear the' Impprf tax stgmp Strati venders of tobaccos, candies and other articles display Imported to-1 baceos and German imitations side bj side, so that evenually purchasers learn the difference and become war, although the German tobaccos are nol inferior to some imported brands. In some ol ihc highcless restaurants only Imitation cigarettes are sold The drug stores are perhaps the chief dispensers of the German imitn-Uonv imitn-Uonv Imported toilet articles and partu ujarly soap. shoving-cre;im. tooth Paste and face lotions are verv scarce 1 But nil the well known American brands hgi pssA Imitated. Trade ni.uk iniiidiois havt display ed ther best work in the saloons j where whiskey bottles bear the labels of well-known English manufacturers But either the signature or the brand! or a word in the name, is Inserted or ihc 1 1 ade mark slightly distorted The bottlex have been filled with German I made whiskeys ofie,, v. ,,,,, some times colored and the substance reeks of grain alcohol. The effect of the' drink Is about the same as (hat ot thl K"' v Georgia and West Virginia "moonshine." I French liQUOrs and Imported gins are virtually never sold. . 'rn' Qlsrwan Inventive talent has I been carried further to Include ;,u BOrts of wearing apparel a suit of jes. displayed In a window and I bearing a rcmaikably reasonable pr'ee tag catches the eyes of the passers-by i pon careful examination It will bi fo I 'be cloth is made of paper 1 Many hats, caps, vests, trousers and even shlrtu are made of paper. Panel strings are In general use Shn,, Which can be purchased for small sum crack and dissolve In water They are made of paper Amcrican and English-made cloths have he, n so are fully Imitated that pnl an expert can deu. I i h, diffei ence. |