Smuggling Trade
BELGIAN FRONTIER THRILLS
BERLIN, Aug. 6. A thrilling light between a Customs officer and a smuggler travelling at full speed in the smuggler’s motor car, occurred in the village of Y/aslienberg, on tho Belgian frontier. The Customs officer managed to leap into the car,, the driver of which hit him on the hand with a spanner. The car, out of control, crashed into the wall of a house. Struggling from the wreckage, the smuggler escaped on a motor cycle which was following the car, and the Customs man recovered his senses to find that he had ‘‘bagged” a large quantity of contraband coffee and tobacco.
It is stated that there arc at present 5662 cases of smuggling before the Courts at Cologne. I‘Jlcvcn million cigarettes, 21,060 cigars, a ton of tobacco, and a ton of coffee have been confiscated recently.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6628, 15 August 1931, Page 13
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142Smuggling Trade Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6628, 15 August 1931, Page 13
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