cigarettes SMUGGLED
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Into Noumea
New Caledonia and French Oceania the cigarette business s a Government monopoly, and y packet is stamped. So, when ;amped packets of American rettes began to appear on the mea market recently, it was r evident to all, including the toms Department, that some g was amiss. i a result of action taken a s quantity of American cig tes of a wide variety of brands seized from distributors. The rettes had been smuggled ashore l the liners Caledonien, itien, and a British freighter in at about that time.