SECRET TUNNEL
DISCOVERED BY FRENCH POLICE LEADING INTO BELGIAN TERRITORY. SMUGGLING AND SUSPECTED GUN-RUNNING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON. June JI. The “Daily Telegraph’s" Paris correspondent says police and customs officers discovered an electrically lit. cemented tunnel, with an underground railway, leading from the Chateau Mont de Peruwels, between Mons and Valenciennes, into a house in Belgian territory. A quantity of tobacco and other contraband, besides secret defence documents were found. Gunrunning is suspected. The police arrested the inmates of the chateau, a Frenchman named Roger Mitaine and two women, Carmencita Olivares and Violette Van Bieshbroek.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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100SECRET TUNNEL Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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