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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20495, 14 March 1932, Page 15

Venice tas been laughing over the experience of a German tourist who had two Viennese cocktail shakers in his baggage which' he had brought as a gift For friends in that city. Austrian shakers are shaped like a\ bomb, and bo when the Italian Customs officers saw (these bright silver-plated objects they grew suspicious. Nor would they believe the man's story that they were innocent adjuncts to a pleasant party. The officers locked him up in a room, sent for a high official, and when he arrived gingerly took the "bombs" to pieces. , Only after a long cross-examination did they give the shakers back to their discomforted owner, who thought himself lucky to be allowed to proceed on his journey by a later train. All gramophone records are "tested" at the Customs, for fear they are really sent in for subversive propaganda;. When the censors hear jazz music the records are passed. But it is rumoured that the speech of a British prince of the blood royal was so puzzling that it was laid aside until an official could be found to interpret it. It was then forwarded to the consignee, a lady of unimpeachable character. Concerns merchandising products of good quality can... develop the unparalleled Bales opportunities in Canterbury most effectively and most economically through the advertising columns of Thb Paras. —-0