RECKLESS SMUGGLERS.
A SENSATIONAL DASH. WITH THREE TONS OF TOBACCO. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Dec. 18. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says that French frontier Customs officers at La Chapelle, nea** Sedan, ambushed a couple of smugglers with motor vans laden with tobacco. They were dashing through a wood at midnight and disregarded challenges. The officers’ bullets glanced off the steel shields, but the driver of the foremost van was shot and the lorry crashed into a cottage. The survivor alighted and attempted to board the second machine, but missed and the wheel crushed him to death. The capture consisted of three tons of costly tobacco.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1921, Page 8
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108RECKLESS SMUGGLERS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1921, Page 8
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