AMERICAN CIGARETTES
CIVILIANS BOUGHT 100,000.
COURT SEQUEL TO PURCHASE.
BRISBANE, Sept. 16
Two civilians paid £215 to two Allied servicemen and left a watch with them as security for another £35 for 100,000 American cigarettes, valued by United States authorities at £6O, it Avas stated in the Bisbane Police Court.
Frederick Robinson, aged 38, and Harry Alexander Davis, aged 28, Avere each fined £lO for having received 10 cases of cigarettes, the property of the United States Forces, Avhich they kneAV had been stolen.
The prosecutor said that at current prices for American cigarettes the men could have made 100 per cent, profit on the deal. Robinson, avlio Avas employed by the Americans as a janitor on a wharf, said he had been approached by two American soldiers, Avho had asked if he Avere prepared to buy cigarettes at £25 a case for 10 cases. He had agreed, and Davis assisted him in finding the purchase money.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 6, 18 October 1943, Page 3
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