DRIVE ON LIQUOR SMUGGLERS
• v Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 8. Customs offieers, coastguards and police along .the south coast of England, have begun a new drive against whai is officially deseribed as "the biggest' liquor smuggling business in Britain for years". It is operated from London, says ihe Daily llerald, with lishermen agents in dozens of tinv coastal villages and is handling a vast cross-ehanneP traffie in eontraband wines and spirits. 1 1. haa.f-^k.-.iA^;;Wd'e.:\system, wireless G'ah^hitTef 'and ftyen 'k'-'bQhyoy jaf. 'niotor lorfies t'or bringihg the boUtraband to London where it is fetehing fantastic prices in West End night blubs. A Devonshire hotel proprietor, claiming to know how the raeket operates, said the lishermen Were tohi by the pre-arranged eode "the catcli will be good touight," whieh was the signal for tliem to put out into mid-ehannel to meet the boats bringing the "stuif" over from the Frencli side. He added that tlie lishermen were paid £50 per trip fon the use of their boats i>lus a oonus for the erew. The police, according to the Daily Herald, know the names of some London receivers and action against tliem is said to be imminent.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 November 1946, Page 5
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