Deseret Evening News | 1905-03-11 | Page 1 | Active Trade in Smuggled Arms Broken Up

ACTIVE TRADE IN SMUGGLED ARMS BROKEN UP Berlin Merob II IAn Ail native trails tn Iii II arms 1111 at lt at nt J was WAi up ut this Hk by hy ly tho tim Joint notion action of ot the Iru Prussian slats sian and 1111 Austrian police The rhe a arms Intercepted consisted chiefly of or tile tho th poorest lor 1 quality of it r revolvers worth wholesale There fitere Is II no 10 evidence that this the smugglers wore sore agents of the tha revolutionists or that they were fro con connected COl with wih any organization Thoy Tile ho were vere merely adventurous travelers who ho soil sell Rol goods on the tl other side of or the hi her bor bordor dor uler tor nt nl O or 0 per cent celt profit with wih little lite risk rl k nn on 01 this thin side sillo of the frontier although those c caught lu Ill II ter territory terrItory are lre severely punished This Illicit trails trade lIon linn always existed d but tint In II increased creased to 10 large proportions during tho the recent months Sushi Such revolvers sure ure Ile now abundant In any alY Polish city cl hut but are uro Iro becoming dearer derr farther In the frontier The ho arms Inns are concealed In ways In goods goals sent ent Into Inlo the lie coon coun country try In crates tin ware war packages of or cloth and AmId bunches of ot bananas Tho experience of or Gorman commercial tot tra travelers trl Is 18 that buyers of or goods frequent frequently ly Iy request that 10 to 10 10 30 revolvers b be concealed In iii II their packages not be because Ir cause calIco the merchants are nr antagonistic tn to the government but hut because It Is I regarded ns nl good IO dullness Hor firms linus have hlo been heen quite willing when the Ih customers cu tomeI taste were known knowl to throw thurow In n R few rew revolvers and auth boxes of ot cart cartridges cat catI cartridges I ridges ridge as a nn flit ni Inducement to buy