Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-05 | Page 15 | Road Across Border Busy Thoroughfare

u ROAD ACROSS BORDER BURDER BUSY Smuggling on Wholesale Scale From Holland to Germany Increases Traffic Amsterdam Sept 4 Smug Smuggling lIns on a wholesale scale is proceeding at Her Ber- Zoom op according to a frontier I correspondent of tho the The traffic between Holland and Belgium in this region has never been heen so henhe hen heavy he declares although much of the business business business busi busi- ness violates at t least in spirit the Dutch laws Jaws covering exports In time of war On tho ho two da days s preceding tho the filing of or toe correspondents correspondent's message only of ot merchandise dise diso was allowed to cross the border at Zoom op but this amount it Il is I. claimed was abnormally small n C I It tn th 15 0 tons were sero sent last lost week to Belgium Flour bacon and petroleum um urn pass the frontier every do da day At some hours the road between Der Bergen Bergen- en- en Zoom op-Zoom and Putto reminds remind one of a migration migration gives gives Indeed the idea of ot ofa a Ct second exodus from Crom Antwerp only onh the stream is in the opposite direction Carts of ot every description bicyclists by bJ hundreds and foot passengers passenger all with bulle bulky parcels a as the they thoy go towards Belgium but handed empty as ns they return It is hI explained that persons crossing the frontier are aro allowed to carry four tour pounds of or rice and four pounds of flour Clour The Tho pea peasants earn about bout 40 e cents carrying car car- ring thie quantity from op Zoom to Putte