FRONTIER SMUGGLERS
TRADES THREATENED
(AUTHORITIES INCREASE REWARDS'.
(United Press Asspciation.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright^;)
- ' i '' LONDON, December 14. “The Berlin' correspond- ' cut states.:. Owing to the prospect of profitable' smuggling being offered through there naving been successive increases in the duties, contraband running into Germany across the Belgian frontier is now so prevalent as to be reminiscent of the Eighteenth ‘Century', in England. _ Individual trades are actually being / threatened with extinction through this illegal competition. Tobacco, grain, ~ ' coffee a.nd foodstuffs are the chief contraband items. The , authorities are increasing the rewards in an effort to cope with conf trabandiste, 'who use fast motor cars, arid who 1 are prepared to fight gun duels with the Customs officers. - .
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1931, Page 5
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