Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — Contraband Trick Detected [ARTICLE]

Contraband Trick Detected

Rubber is by no means the only substance which the exponents of contraband tricks endeavor to get. through. vOermany wants copper badly, and there are always people trying to supply her with it. Some of them hit upon an ingenious plan which seemed t» promise certain success. Instead of be-, ing hidden in the ship, the copper was damped*.to her bottom. Apparently th* consignersth ought that, however closely the British %vy might search the interior of a vessel, no one would have senje enough to think of examining the outside of her below the But they had. One sailing vessel when intercepted and overhauled was found! to have a great quantity of copper v fixed along her keel. Into harbor went and the copper was seized.