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This week looted goods were piling up at police headquarters. In railway sheds police found stolen jewelry, liquor, etc. marked for shipment to all parts of Canada. Hundreds paraded before angry police magistrates. Typical sentences: five years for looting; three years for receiving stolen goods; two years for smashing a $100 plate-glass window...
Poland and Czechoslovakia. The first shipment of supplies for Poland and Czechoslovakia-10,000 tons-has arrived at a Black Sea port. Control of distribution: Russian...
...went up in smoke. Neither Japs nor Reds could be blamed for the plague of nitrate-ship fires (TIME, April 2) after Chile's cocky counter-espionage Departamento 50 nabbed the chief saboteur, a German named Julio Alberto von Appen Oestmann (alias Apfel), and turned him over for shipment...
...news that the brandy was piled on the pier spread quickly. But the arrival of the French ship did not mark the resumption of a flourishing wine trade with France. The shipment had been four years en route to the U.S. Ready for shipment when trade with France was halted, the 8,504 cases were stored in Marseilles and left untouched by the Germans, who seemed to prefer champagne...
...importer could say when the next shipment of French goods could be expected. French inland transportation is crippled. And few ships have time to spare for luxury cargoes of wines and perfume...