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Show A Gold Mine in a Cushion. Though smuggling has long been a fine art, It has never been more of a science than it is at the present time. Rubber is ingeniously inserted in cardboard card-board boxes, coffins are full of copper, cotton conceals bombs or rifles indiscriminately. indis-criminately. You are in short apt to find that the most unlikely bales of goods are filled with, munitions. But all is not gun running in spite of the war. A remarkable story was told by an inspector of the Bombay police who gave evidence recently regarding alleged al-leged gold-running between South Africa Af-rica nnd India. The inspector related how some Indians in South Africa consigned con-signed gold to India in boxes purporting purport-ing to contain cushions, the 'bars of gold being glued into false bottoms fitted fit-ted to the cases. The trick was only discovered owing to a quarrel which arose between two partners in one of n,no ,ienls The noliee are doing their utmost to put a stop to this traffic, which, of course, involves a big loss annually to the Hand. |