PARISIAN GOODS
Smuggling To Britain
(Received October 17, 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 16.
Customs officers report that smuggling of Paris-made luxury goods such as scents, lipsticks and wine to Britain from France by air is becoming a business, s.nxs the “Evening Standard.” Squads of Customs men have made a number of raids on the airports in the Home Counties as part of a campaign to tighten up. tbeir control. A Customs officer said : “A tremendous racket is going on, and we are following up the possibility that there is a mastermind behind it.” Some of the smuggled goods are reported to have found tbeir way into AVest End restaurants and hotels, where smuggled champagne fetches £5 sterling q bottle and upward, and the best Pans lipsticks sell for as much as £2 each.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 20, 18 October 1944, Page 8
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133PARISIAN GOODS Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 20, 18 October 1944, Page 8
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