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Show Ruhr Invasion Cuts Wine Supply Berlin. An acute wine shortage Is threatening unoccupied Germany owing ow-ing to the clash of German passive resistance with the Franco-Belgium customs will. The wine growers In the occupied area, as well as the outside out-side retailers, refuse to pay the 10 per cent export tax demanded by the occupation forces. The government has prohibited them from doing so and In controlling the Iihine and Moselle Palatinate wine stores the French have their hands on the chief fountain foun-tain heads of the Rhineland's retail supply. |