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Show INGENIOUS SCHEMES I OF THESMJGGLERS I EL PASO, Tex., Feb. S. Many in- 1 genious schemes are devised for get- m ting contraband articles across the M Mexican border and despite the vigi- lance of the war trade board and cus- 1 toms officials often suficeed. Men in m the employ of the smugglers will con- S ceal themselves behind the bullet- 1 proof abode houses on tho Mexican 1 side and fire shots across the border M into the United States. This is in- I tended to attract the border patrols M to that particular point to investigate 1 tho cause of the shooting. The smug- j glors will then rush their contraband m articles across the border at other M points distant from the scene of the firing. Another plan Is to have a chain of small Mexican grocery stores established estab-lished in the Mexican quarter near the border. Contraband goods are sent from wholesale houses to these grocery gro-cery stores apparently in the course of legitimate business. But the small stores in reality are only blinds for the smugglers who slip out of tho back doors of these stores and wade the river with the sacks of sugar. Hour or lard on their backs. To stop this practice prac-tice licenses of several wholesale houses were revoked here recently. Women and children are also employed' in smuggling. on |