ARTFUL SMUGGLING
NECKLACE IN THERMOS FLASK. LONDON, November 20. An extraordinary story of a ru-e where-? by a pearl necklace was smuggled through: the Russian frontiers and brought to Loudon, has just been disclosed to the London Evening News by the purchaser. Tho necklace, which fetched over £4-0.000, was the property of a Russian nobleman. It was dropped into a thermos flask and a quantity of wax poured over it. The flask was then filled with tea. screwed up. and put in a suitcase containing clothes and clean linen. Before the suitcase was closed the flask was deliberately smashed, tho tea being spilt • r the clothes. When the case arrived at the frontier the Bolshevist? unceremoniously' flung it open, probed about, and saw th@ tea-stained articles. “It is monstrous!” exclaimed the owner in feigned indignation. “my flask and clothing have been ruined by careless handling.” He was told roughly to keep quiet. The guard decided that the flask was not worth confiscating. and. with its precious contents, it lias arrived in London without further adventures.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 41
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175ARTFUL SMUGGLING Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 41
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