DISORDERLY SCRAMBLE AT CIGARETTE SALE
Received Fridav, 7.20 p.m. BRhSBAXK, May 24. Screaniing women and jostling men joined in a disorderly scramble at a sale by the Customs of confiscated cigaretles. Boveral women fainted and had to be passed over the heads of tlie milling niob. A lmge (pieue spread four dee]> along a citv street before tlie sale started. A false alarni developed into a stainpede. Tlie police tried to close a barrier but those who had already | nearly gained their objective, jmlled otliers back by the hair in an atteiiqit lo gain admission. Fourteen liundred cartons of cigarettes were sold before tlie sale had to be stopped.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1946, Page 5
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