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Show ARMS ARE SHIPPED OVER BORDER LINE TO MEXICANS Special Permit Given Customs Officers Of-ficers to Allow Export of Rifles and Ammunition to Federal Army. El Paso, Texas. By virtue of a special permit from the secretary of the treasury, American customs and army officers on Friday allowed the exportation to the Mexican federal garrison in Juarez of 40,000 rounds of ammunition and 400 rifles. The munitions mu-nitions were bought for cash at a local lo-cal arms store. It is part of 400,000 cartridges and a quantity of rifles bought at the store severpl days ago. Friday's exportation is only a small part of the ammunition and guns that have been sold by El Paso dealers during the past few weeks, believed by agents of the department of justice to be for federals. The charges are Winchester brand 30-30, and the rifles are in boxes stenciled Frankfort (Ky.) Armory. A carload of weapons and ammunition boxes is a part of a shipment that is to leave Juarez Saturday. Sat-urday. The dealers are selling for cash unconditionally, and the rule is to leave consignments at their back doors and notify purchasers that they are to attend to their own delivery. |