DUCK-HEADED GEESE.
NOVEL SMUGGLING DEVICE
POLISH AND GERMAN EXCHANGES.
KATOWICE (Poland)
NoVel tricks are used by smugglers on the Polish-German border in Upper Silesia.
Recently the Reich reduced the duty on ducks. Germans, however, didn't want ducks, but geese; so smugglers fixed ducks' heads and feet on dressed
geese and got them through at the lower rate.
The frontier is singularly favourable for smuggling. About 240,000 Poles and 120,000 Germans cross daily on 'business. The line runs through farms and fields and one can throw a package from a Polish house into a German garden.
Poles smuggle lemons from Germany, now that they cannot get them frojn Italy. Then there are various drugs, also saccharine and cigarette lighters, which are costly in Poland bccause ol' State monopolies. Germans smuggle mostly meat, poultry, eggs and butter.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 17
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