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Bombay, Dec. 18.
Customs officials here last night seized 98 kilograms (about 196 pounds) of contraband gold, estimated to be worth £71,250, from four Italians who arrived by air from Europe.
The gold was found hidden on the passen- gers and behind false sides of their suitcases. The passengers, described themselves as "textile and leather merchants, coming to India to extend con- tacts."
first
Goes to take Customs officials
dis-¡spector John covered about. 50 kilograms another look" after an initial (100 pounds) when an Air In-search.
Constellation
gold dia International
Inspector Goes found
of arrived from Europe. The gold also in the plywood side was discovered in one-kilo the passengers suitcases-mak- bars inside the waist-coats of ing up a total of 50 kilograms. two passengers whose undue The Customs officials then de- haste prompted Customs Incided to search all incoming kilo- planes. They found 24
of grams
gold on another Italian who arrived later the evening from Europe Trans-World Airlines.
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New York, Dec. 18. The New York Times, in an editorial today, said it was diffi- cult to read General Wu Hsiu- chuan's (Communist China's UN delegate) press conference state- ment without feeling sheer be wilderment:
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Air Collision Over Tourane
Paris, Dec. 18. Thirty French Army officers and men were killed when two Junkers collided in flight over Tourane. the Agence France Presse reported from Saigon today.-Reu- ter.
Tourists Can
Spend More
London, Dec. 18- The British Treasury tonight: in doubled the £50 sterling allow by ance to tourists to a wide range of European, South American and African territories.
at
The new rates also apply to Britons already abroad.
A fourth Italian arriving night by a Ceylon airliner was searched and 24 kilograms of
Under the new allowances gold, were seized from him.
Yesterday's haul has raised adults will get £100 instead of Bombay Customs' contraband £50 a year and children under gold seizures in the last month15 £70 instead of £35.
There are no restrictions on to over £1,200,000,...
The biggest single seizure was the amounts that can be spent £247,000 worth of gold last by British residents travelling in
of Arabs the sterling area but no tourist April from a group arriving in the country by sea allowance is available to those in from the Middle East.
the dollar area-Reuter A Customs official said that, recent vigil at the
The editorial said: "It has after the some aspects of a grotesque docks, smugglers were appar- dream in which everything is ently, continuing their activities Officers
inside out, in which one walks by air.-Reuter. on ceilings, in which water is dry and lead is feather weight. Words lost their meaning and
their context. The whole con- Hongkong Radio
cept of factual truth had been not betrayed but totally dis- carded.
"This raised the grim question:
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Car
Die In Crash
Pensacola, Florida, Dec.
An officer of the Navy and a Mexican officer, were killed today a their car crashed through-
Is the Chinese Communist Owing to a misunderstanding, bridge barricades and str spokesman actually living in such the Hongkong Radio program-highway department, truck a topsy-turvy world that he can mes published in this morning's here honestly believe his own words? South China Morning Post are
Lieut. Armondo. Marcos
If he and any member of his the programmes for tomorrow Mexico and Lieut Luis Brin!
of Italy died colleagues actually think those and not today.
Officers sald thoughts and really believe that
Will everybody who is sche travelling they have any relation to what is happening in our world and our duled to take part in studio speed when minds, then we are faced with programmes tonight note that an appallingly difficult problem they are expected to be present according to original irango-
of making ou
even
today
correct" progrimmes