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Feb. 02, 1964 - These Ladies are for burning.: In a shed in the London Docks is a massive collection of over 350.000 obscene books which have been confiscated by the British Customs and have been packed to await their turn to go into the incinerator, Many of the books have been waiting for several years. Most of them come from New York, and the Customs man say that they are easy to spot, in spite of the fact that they are sometimes hidden among Bibles, of are marked as educational books. The fact that so many of the consigments - which cost about £1, 000 each to send- are consficated, is causing the flow of them to stop because it is proving uneconomic for the traders. Photo shows Customs officers check the books in preparation for burning

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And Pound Await Bibles Causing Confiscated Cost Educational Fact Flow Hidden Incinerator Massive Obscene Packed Proving Shed Sometimes Spite Traders Uneconomic

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