SMUGGLERS’ TRICKS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12307, 22 April 1937, Page 2

SMUGGLERS’ TRICKS

I’EAHLS IN DOC ’8 .STOMACH DIAMOND I\ CIfE\VI.VG-Gt'l London, April 3 ;> In view of the thousands of foreign visitors expected in Britain dinin' the next few weeks; Customs officiate are redoubling their efforts to caW jewel, dog and drug smugglers. Here are stories of the t rlC ' iS smugglers try: A Continental actress wearing • loose-fitting fur coat lauded at b' bury. A poodle dropped from “ e sleeve and staggered as though were “drunk.” It hud been drufig® • but not sufficiently to keep it <l® • while the woman got through ■ Customs. The owner wanted dodge the regulations whkh v.o have kept the dog in quarantine six months. * One of the most incredible ■ of smuggling was that of a who made her dog drink a str » pearls in a glass of milk. Aft had been examined she gave tl mal an emetic and recovers pearls. . !ar « Another woman concealed a , single-stone diamond in " e gum, which she stuck In ® ■ r . pillar while being examined. • wards she returned and reigum ami diamond in her niou A passenger in a liner , '’ a - 1 to ill.” He wired for an anlJU ’’ farmeet the liner. Ambulance ried the “sick man” a *®'’q.elk Customs officers were *s n , ve rc but jewels worth themsand * oncealed in the .stretcher hai