SECRET ARSENAL.
PARIS REVOLUTIONARIES. PARIS. Feb. 24. The police searching a butcher's house in a quiet street for a stolen motor car discovered in the dining room a veritable arsenal. The walls were covered with latest firearms, including 80 rifles with bayonets, 100 revolvers, 16,000 rifle cartridges, 201bs of explosives. and a number of detonators and fuses. There were also 16 machine guns in a garage. It is believed that they were intend ed for the use of an international revolutionary organisation. The owner of the house. Leopold Tancard, posed as an enthusiastic collector of arms. He had already been twice sentencer for possessing arms, but both times the weapons were restored to him.
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Grey River Argus, 1 March 1927, Page 3
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114SECRET ARSENAL. Grey River Argus, 1 March 1927, Page 3
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