FRONTLER SENSATION.
■ I m [By Electric Cable —Copyright] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, December 18. The "Daily Mailjs" Paris correspondent says that the French frontier Custom officers at La Chapelle, near Sedan, ambushed a couple of smuggler motor-vans laden with tobacco. They were dashing through a wood at midnight and disregarded the challenges. The officers' bullets glanced off the steel shields, but the driver of the foremost van was shot, and the lorry crashed into a cottage. The survivor alighted and attempted to board the second machine, but he missed his footing and a wheel crushed him to death. The capture consisted of three tons of costly tobacco.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2004, 21 December 1921, Page 5
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109FRONTLER SENSATION. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2004, 21 December 1921, Page 5
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