Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1912 — Dividends From Smuggling. [ARTICLE]

Dividends From Smuggling.

Italian custom house officials have just discovered a large contraband “company,” with headquarters in Milan and Lucerne, which regularly payß dividends secretly and whose field of operations extends across a large tract of the Swiss-Italian frontier, from the shores of Lake Magglore up to Lugano. Over 1,000 persons are Involved in the operations, and there have been many, arrests recently, though a number of those implicated have escaped from Italy by crossing the frontier into Switzerland, where of conrse they cannot be arrested. The contraband goods consisted chiefly of saccharine, sugar and Swiss watches, which were smuggled across the frontier in trucks with the connivance of several railway employes. - • ' T . There is in friendship something of all relatipna, and something above them all. It is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world.—John