DAWN BATTLE.
WITH SMUGGLERS. Running Flour From Ulster To Eire. VERY PROFITABLE RACKET. LOKDOK, April 3. Civil Guards and Customs officers fought a dawn battle with 100 smugglers on the Ulster border, in the mountains near Dowra, County Cavan. The smugglers were engaged in the latest and very profitable racket of running flour from Ulster into Eire, where it can be sold at a profit of £11 a ton. The "Daily Mail" says that the smugglers, drivin™ donkeys laden with flour, had entered the last stages of their journey when they walked into an ambush. The Customs men charged with batons, and the smugglers snatched up sticks and stones. The fijrht continued for half an hour before the smugglers retreated, leaving four wounded. Two Customs men were seriously wounded. Soldiers who searched the loctelity latcr found several flour dumps. The "Daily Mail" says that the wartime price of flour in Eire has soared to the present level of 47/ a sack, compared with 26/ in Belfast and London.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1940, Page 7
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168DAWN BATTLE. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1940, Page 7
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