SERIOUS PROBLEM
Contraband Runners Active GERMANY ALARMED (Rec. December 14, 7.80 p.m.) London, December 14. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times" states that owing to the prospect of profitable smuggling offered through successive increases and duties, contraband-running into Gernftiny across the Belgian frontier is so prevalent as to be reminiscent of the Eighteenth Century in England. Individual trades are actually threatened, extinction through illegal competition. Tobacco, grain, coffee and foodstuffs are the chief contraband items. The authorities are increasing rewards in an effort to cope with the contrabandists, who use fast motor-cars, and are prepared to fight gun duels with the Customs officers.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 69, 15 December 1931, Page 9
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