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SMUGGLING
This is No. 2 in a nows-in-fine- focus series from the scend of. activity of the postwar London criminal. On Saturday John Dean Potter took you on a crime patrol through the side-street cafos of Soho. MONTAGUE
DOVER.
T the foot of the gangway of the Golden Arrow cross- Channel steamer, a Cus- toms waterguard oflcer stood unsuspected in civillan clothes. He was eyeing most of the pas- sengers from the Invicta as they pressed forward in their rush to the baggage examination shed..
Years of this work looking for the smuggler and revenue evader have transformed him into an expert psychologist,
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.
Even a toy bear (full of watches) didn't get through
LACEY today reports The weak spot is that the Customs, from the Customs* Shod, whore a coded chalk mark is the honest citizen's pass- port through the bar-
like the police, are short of men. The staff is unable to protect every part of the coast.
riors
he runs with Swellery--the most paying activity of the smuggler-are organised on big business lines, and are making thousands of pounds for the gangs involved.
In London, a West End hotel is He watched for the air of bravade the centre for arranging big deals. of the middle-aged
coming ashore; the smug grace with which the heavily perfumed woman travel ler clutches her handbag as she makes for the Customs benches; and the nervous hesitancy of the young woman coming back from her first holiday abroad.
SPOT CASH WHEN he sees a likely smuggler he Walips quietly to the bamage slied and whhers into the ear of a gold- bralded preventive
A thornugh search follows.
Already numbers of wanted men have been able to leave this country secretly for the security of another country'.
In the alt, too. Is another head- Today ofßeers coming back into
Now ache for the Customs ment. the watermard service are sent to that thousands more have learned Bolinejs before taking un work at an Alpind on rearont. There they are brought us to date in the methods of the 1947 dodger. But the Customs doubt,
with even
Commissioners
precat-
Chese
tiens whether they will be able to tackle the epidemic of smuggling
expected this summer.
Holidaymakers may gain by the
diverted from the men who are
to fly and is no problem to hire a plane-a few secret trips abroad offer rich rewards to the smuggler.
POCKET CARTOON:
BY THE WAY.
by Beachcomber
MAGIC EYE THE Customs have taken over an ex-warship to help in their cam- Motor- naign against smuggling ears are issued, too, for const patrons.List, Kodliya Oyul, arrived THE Turkish woman drama-
But I believe, after long investiga-
British and American forces de, booni. Atention Is unlikely to be tion, that the day is not far off when yesterday by air. As she step- bringing in contraband diamonds, the Customs Commissioners will have ped from the plane, she said to
serters are mainly used to carry the goods. If they are caught the thes are paid by unnamed people who keep in the background.
wns
dive device.
precious metals and cur to revolutionise their methods and I have seen bonds hidden in draw upon every wartime preven. reporters, "I am amazed at the a tin of vegetables, diamonds buried
prosperity and fun of your coun- In smuggling like mort other things, in the cream of a woman's make-up
They need their own planes, radio try. Everywhere I go I shail Here she was checked we are paying for the war now, Jar, liquor hidden under the mud-
heartless guards of a motor-car, and a child's and Creed machines to flesh mes- see No Customs officer officer.
sages all over the country. They by her secrotary and the script enough to take heavy duty from a teddy bear stuffed with watches. soldier bringlug a present home, Remember, too, the thousands of need an automnile "magle eye" that was changed. "Good luck to all young men who have been trained can peer into every package and of you," cried the dramatist, as to navigate small craft around these parcel. This year may even see the ahores and
and the
she stepped into a waiting car. to pick up a Or the boat will Mimsie Slopcorner
The 600 passengers I watched being cxamined as they come through Dover gave fille trouble. Some 20 Customs officers were co). lecting money faster than the gate men at a dog track, although they hd to give a receipt for every релпу.
In three-quarters of an hour-diat is the remarkably small time allowed for 600 people to come ashore, clear passport control and Customs, and board the train for London-beveral thousandaming brass scales on had been collected. By which silk, tobacco and other things are weighed for duty to be assessed were the usual assortment of seized #cods.
or
to
TOUGHER NOW NOW they are tightening up. Laws
are being enforced and the lost penny of duty is being collected. Many of the new, young Customs officers are men from the Services,
and they know most of the dodges that were used to cheat the Customs,
Some weeks ago a plane landed from abroad, and the crew said they But the had nothing to declare. Customs officer had been a wartime pilot. He not busy with a screw- driver on the panels of the fuselage, and his labours were not unreword- ed.
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In one recent capture, I saw motor-car with a false back and of other cunning hiding places. Sult
cases with false bottoms and sides, and specially made body-bells are common devices. The hollow walk- ing-stick-once a "must"
in the paraphernalia of the professional smuggler-is now a bad risk.
The Customs men have at their disposal details of most of the dodges
They were the former prize BOINE half-hearted "importer" smuggler who had surrendered the Customs rather than pay the heavy duty and purchase tax.
Some idea of the scale of post-war smuggling can be gauged by the fact that the big operators have set up headquarters in London, Dublin, and Parls,
Amsterdam
Zurich..
Brussels,
NEW YORK LETTER:
that were evolved to defeat the Ges- tapo in wartime.
America has the food, but cannot send it
NEW YORK, May 18. -HE-problem-of-feeding the
Ti American zone of Germany is becoming something of a night- mare. not because of the ex- pense, but because of the phy- sical difficulties in the way of doing the job,
The famine admitted.
Most Americans feel that the primary responsibility rests on their country, simply because their coun- try alone has foodstuffs in sufficient quantities.
necessity of preventing in Germany is generally
But there is a growing sense of frustration in the country. It is
plain that the increasingly
do will not Americans can enough.
NEAR THE LIMIT
best be
LAST month the U.S. sent to the
war-devastated countries more than 1,500,000 tons of grain and flour and little more than 2,500,000 tons of coal
By Gerald Johnson
Port facilities are in better shape, but they are carrying very nearly
they
SHIPMENTS may be increased
somewhat, but it is flatly
im-
possible to double or treble them,
Yet the situation demands two or three times as much as the U.S. is sending. Result: The American is in a morally impossible position.
He is willing to do what is right, but he cannot,
His first responsibility, after all, is not the Germans but the Filipinos, who suffered horribly for their
loyalty.
Then he has terrife problems In Japan and Korea.
He owes much to France, and he cannot abandon Italy if only because one-tenth of his own people, are of Italian blood,
He is not permitted to forget his responsibility for a moment.. WOEFUL STORIES
NEWSPAPERS
i
are NEW
filled N stories of the woeful state of
with '
German civilians with the ration reduced to 100 calories..
In the two items of bread and fuel America moved something more than 4,000,000 tons. This is at the rate of nearly 50,000,000 tons a year, not counting meat, fats and other items,
This is approaching the limit of what America can do.
The American transportation system
ia good, but it is miraculous. Much of this tonnage has to be hauled 1,500 miles or more overland before it starts its dea voyage.
The American rollway system suffered heavy deterforation during the war which has not yot becn There is not enough wharf space made good,
to accommodate the necessary ships.
Reading them, a man in Iowa, in the middle of the continent, may eye "with distaste the excellent cut of
roast beef on fils plate.
not
Yet the country round him swarms with beef cattle.
There are not enough refrigerator
cars to move the ment to the cousi There are not enough. stevedores to load it if i got there.
NANCY Short Term for New Member
between here
Continent. Many of them work for Customs using radar the big ganga; some have bought smuggler's boat, small boats from the Admiralty. not be plekid up!.
STORIES OF THE ROYAL TOUR
•
By A Correspondent on the Tour
THAT little horse Misle Slop- corner having passed her screen- test is to be groomed for stardom." Her round face will be made ́oval, her dark hair golden, her snub-nose aquiline. She will be given new eyebrows and eyelashes, a shorter chin, smaller cars. She will then be required to face the cameras again, and say. "Gee that's awell." She will then bo ready to star in "Adam Bedo." Hor mother said yesterday: "When I was young nobody offered to give me a new face." "Worse juck, commented Mr Slopcorner the ironically.
IN the Boer homesteads on the the dreaded tick-bite fever.. But IN the on
royal party did stay, In other torates, in the exclusive Rand bungalows and rundavels (mushrnoni- Club in Johannesburg, they shaped, olive-built are still telling stories of the royal visit to South Africa.
Here are a few:
Faced with their first ten-course South African meal at Cape Town, the King and Queen, used to Bri- tain's austerity menus. blanched a little.
Not so Princess Margaret. With the eager appetite of a 16-year-old, she asked a member of General
Smuts's Cabinet sitting next to her: "May we eat all those courses7" and she did.
The Queen has lost seven lb.
Bul. neither the Queen "nor Princess Elizabeth at any time took full advantage of the Invish South African fare.
The Queen has actually lost seven pounds in weight, and Princess Elizabeth has taken on inch off her bust measurement.
At
lovely Pieterskop, in the Kruger National Park, where lions and nearly every other kind of game wander at will, the party
constructed shown
newly bungalows, bullt specially for their
USC.
three
were
"How lovely: They're like dream cottages come true." exclaimed the Queen.
But one of the senior Government officials organising the tour broke in on the Queen's dream.
"I am afraid your Majesties' pro gramme does not permit you to stay here," he said.
Real reason was a fear that any of the royal party might catch
We are moving all the meat we can, yet much, remains.
Therefore, the man in Iowa is an idiot if he doesn't edt. But he feels
swine if he does.
It is an unhappy position.
An Interesting evidence of the situation is afforded
by sugar, which is still rationed although the warehouses in eastern ports, are fairly bursting.
The trouble is that all available freight cars are being concentrated in the Middle West to clear the grain elevators before, the new wheat crop comes in.
Thus there is no means of moving thio sugar from the coast to the Interior.
will
[Tomorrow
John Redforn continue the series.]
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saw
of them caught the fever.
Nearly all the natives who the King were just a little dis- appointed. They expected to sco their "Great White Father" in full robes of state, with his crown, on his head.
But this was not possible...
Slim man in a white uniform
And the memory the Zulus, the Basutos and the Swazi carried away
Midget steals obelisk
She remembers the days when the used to bake her own head.
(Morning paper.)
SURELY misprint for "boil," writes "Ciboulette"" -in- her "Four Hundred Recipes For Cold Cod."
Mrs Ada Snifichurst.
Putting a punch into it
was of a slim man in a white uniform with only the broad blue
The orchestra attempted to open ribbon of the Garter across his chest | the concert. but, members of the to mark him out from the Colonial audience held the conductor, and Office officials,
the performance was again suspend-
In Cape Town and la Pretoria, and several other centres, they telle (News item.) how the Queen went shopping on her own and found to her delight that the crowds left her free, to make her purchases at her case.
THIS could not happen in England
where the people love. Listening to concerts. But in France those who On one occasion, the Queen was detest music.do not sulie in a corner...... examining some pure silk dress They come out into the corner-halls, lengths, and she selected a black and and either burn the instruments or, white patterned plece of beautiful as in this case seize the conductor design.
and confiscate his little stick. Art is long, life is short, as the man said when he spread his mattress on the floor during a prolonged Wagner and snatched 400 winks.
Marvels of science
Just as she chose. It the phone tang, and an assistant had to tell the Queen that another customer, who had seen the silk curlier and asked for it to be reserved for her, had confirmed her order.
It was the last plece of that put- 'tern in stock.
"Never mind," said the Queen. "I never seem to be able to go shopping like this in London, and I am enjoying it!
The story they tell most often about Princess Elizabeth is that on her 21st birthday the first telegram to teach her at Government House, Cape Town, was signed "Phlilp,"
But no one knows what the mes- sage was,
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