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Show Smugglers' Ruse. An ingenious method of smuggling saccharin has been detected at Bre-genz, Bre-genz, Australia, where seven men were arrested for importiuglarge quantities quan-tities of contraband. When the Geneva-Munich Geneva-Munich express arrived at Bregenz the station master had a coach containing seven travelers uncoupled from the express and detained for examination. H- had been warned by telegraph from Zurich that seven smugglers of Geneva were in the train with a large quantity of saccharin. After an exhaustive ex-haustive search the officials failed to find any contraband and were about to apologize to the seven travelers for their detention when one customs Inspector In-spector accidentally kicked a hot water pipe in a first class compartment compart-ment and the secret was revealed. All the hot water pipes in the carriage were in duplicate, differing in no detail de-tail as to length, breadth and color, but one set was of metal and the other set marie of .papier mache containing con-taining saccharin, which is about nine times as expensive in Austria as in Switzerland. |