CONTBABANDISTS EXPOSED BY X-RAYS
'ATJSTRO-GERMAN MERCHANTS IN AMERICA. ' ' London, May 31. "The Times'b" correspondent at New York says that officials of the British Consulate used X-rays on bales of cottoir, and have had five Austro-German merchants indioted on a charge of conspiring to smuggle rubber into Austria and Germany. The German authorities had furnished the merchants with large credits. The rubber was packed 1 in barrels of resin, but this was declared contraband, and it was then hidden in cotton, which it was sought to export on British ships to Genoa.
The merchants are also to be charged with defrauding the American Government by means of false declarations. — "Times' and Sydney "Sun" Services.
STEAMER DETAINED. GERMAN UNDER DANISH FLAG. Copenhagen, June 1. Britain has refused to allow the steamer Sydland, owned by Albert Jausen, to leave Eiverpool under the Danish flag, on the ground that Jansen'a company, owning fifteen large steamers, is really a German concern.
[The Dutch police discovered fifty tons of copper concealed in a vessel at Rotterdam. Many persons were found to be buying up copper and sending it to a naturalised German in the city named. Several arrests were made, and much copper was seized. On March 2 Albert Jansen was sentenced to sixty days' imprisonment. He was the ringleader of the smuggling gang-1
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2477, 2 June 1915, Page 5
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218CONTBABANDISTS EXPOSED BY X-RAYS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2477, 2 June 1915, Page 5
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