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Show I FRANCE FIGHTING DILUTION OF WINE PAR10, Dec. 30. Preventing whole-j alo and retail wine dealers from wa-j terlng their In.' is one of the- new) problems of the internal revenue department- of the Prench government. Bvtry drop of water Introduced Into wine meani just so much less revenue to the government. Also it is argued by the department of agriculture that the consumer of wine has a right to a pure product. If he wants it. and) should be protected Furthermore. ihe. consumer Is apt to put some h ater in the wine after he gets It home. If only for economy's sake, ami j it is evident that If he is sold diluted wine in the first place, the government govern-ment will be defrauded .lust ao much more. Hefore the war. when wine was very, b ap In France, dilution was unheard; Of. But during the past year, out of 10.472 samples of win taken from BUSpected dealers, 4326 samples were found to have been watered heavily. and 20 70 convictions for fraud were obtained. In ord'-r to protect the good nam nf French champagne, there have been many arrests recently for mis-j i f-pres. ntlng sparkling wines as charn-' pagnes. . Any real champagne Is always al-ways labelled with that word on the bottle, It is explained, and the pur- baser can protect himself when he order or-der champagne by looking for the1 word "champagne" loth on the bot-j He and on the oork. If this word Is not ther', then he Is drinking a bub-j stltute j |