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Show recent seizures of smuggled jewelry at this port. Employes of certain unscrupulous London and Paris jewelry houses are said u be responsible, intentionally or otherwise, for a large pari of the smuggling. These men, who get commissions com-missions on sales, generally pose as wealthy tourists and sometimes as members of the nobility. The ingenuity ingenu-ity displayed by returning to,n;sts In hiding necklaces and other jewelry from the customs' officers Is said lo be often the result of suggestions received re-ceived from these men. The anti-smuggling committee pointed by tho Ma.dn Lane Jewelers' organization, declares, in a preliminary prelimi-nary report just made public. Unit "the smuggling of pearls and diamonds dia-monds is even more enormous In extent ex-tent than has been generallv suspected." EXTENSIVE SMUGGLING OF PEARLS mNO DIAMONDS New York, Sept. 0. Kxpusures of ' the methods of some foreign jewelers, who make a specially of selling to the American tourist trade, followed lh |