COAST WATCHERS
BRITISH BOY SCOUTS WAR ON SMUGGLERS [from a special correspondent] LONDON, Feb. 10 Boy Scouts began duty last week as coast watchers along a 20-mile stretch between Hastings and Dungeness, the most notorious bay in the history of British smuggling. Hastings scouts and scoutmasters are to be trained to help the coastguards in their daily patrol, sharing with them their duties or preventive and life-sav-ing service. It is believed that smuggling still goes on at the lonely marsh-bordered coves that abound in _ this locality. Reports of mysterious lights seen signalling at night, and fast cars hurrying to lonely, uninhabited beaches, frequently reach the coastguards. _ But with onfy a handful of men it is impossible to keep adequate watch over the network of footpaths and sheep tracks that intersect the hundreds of square miles of lonely Romney marshes and the other marshlands that lie along the shore between Rye and Hastings.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23290, 8 March 1939, Page 10
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