London, June 29.
A record fine aggregating £75,000) lor alternatively six months' Imprisonment each, was imposed on a cigarette maker and a master mariner at Portsmouth to-day for smuggling a quantity of tobacco.
The contraband, brought from Antwerp in a 60-year-old tug, was secretly landed during the night in creek near Portsmouth, and the bales were brought to Woolwich by road.
The vessel returned to Antwerp for Dunkirk.
further cargo but was wrecked off
The first mentioned accused had been previously fined £15,000 for smuggling tobacco during the War in submarine.—Reuter, use the New Hygienic
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