Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1917 — A Gold Mine in a Cushion. [ARTICLE]

A Gold Mine in a Cushion.

Though smuggling has long been a fine art, it has never been more of a science than it is at the present time. Rubber is ingeniously inserted in cardboard boxes, coffins are -full of copper, cotton conceals bombs or rifles Indiscriminately. You are in short apt to find that the most . unlikely bales of goods are filled with munitions. But all Is not gun running in spite of the war. A remarkable story was told by -an Inspector of the Bombay police who gave evidence recently regarding alleged gold-running between South Africa and India. • The inspector related how some Indians in South Africa consigned gold to India in boxes purporting to contain cushions, the bars of gold being glued into false bottoms fitted to the cases. The trick was only discovered owing to a quarrel which arose between two partners in one of these deals. The police are doing their utmost to put a stop to this traffic, which. of course, involves a big loss annually to the Rand.