Petrol and motor tyre smuggling is becoming so common on the DutchGerman border that the Customs officers of the latter country are using boards well studded with spikes, which are thrown on the road to stop the smugglers’ cars. . _ . . . Centuries ago a party of Danish invaders approached a Scottish camp by night. A bare-footed Dane stepped on a thistle, and his howl of pain raised the alarm. The attack was repelled, and the Scots eVor afterwards held the thistle in veneration.
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Evening Star, Issue 21010, 26 January 1932, Page 9
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