Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 1, 1915, Page 12

HOLLAND K HAVEN | ROR THE SMUGGLER Regular System for Beating Govern- ment and Tortures Will Not Make Men Disclose Secrets. MANY DEALERS ARE KILLED (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 12.~The romantic smuggler waiting for a dark night to run his lugger ‘ashore in & cove, and them bury his bales and bar- rels in the sand, has disappeared, but the just now here, in metting rather more profit tham ever, especially in Holland however, is chiefly contrahand out of than bringing it In A visitor to an den. of which s of Retterdam, would middle-aged clerkly well-cut business suit at a desk. In front of him, small heaps of spioes, grain of various species, olicake and raw rubber and samplcs botties of burning and lubri. cating olls. From time to time the smug- gler chief takes the telephone recelver down, calls a number and bargains in terse phrases pver th rices of job lots of the art samy f which lie be- | fore him, sent for his approval by mer chants and dealers who held stocks more or less extensive before the new and | striot government regulations calling for | an inventory wers issued. The modern smuggler interested the country up-to-date smuggler's yumber exist in the center probably find a rman dressed in & | { | trade still flourishes and probably v,,-,,"‘ | | | | | The Shrewd Smuggler Chief. Then follow other telephone calls on shippers or their skippers. The smug- | gler chief is trying to arrange for the traneport of his fliiclt exports across the border line, into Germany or Belgium. Freights for this trade are, high and the | smuggler's efforts are directed towad | beating down the shipper to as low a | figure as poseible; but the shipper holds | out, for he knows smuggled goods bring high rates when safely brought to their | destination. Torture would not force the smugglers to discloes the methods by which they manage to forward the contraband be- yond the closely guarded frontier. It is hinted, however, that many raflroad cars ostensibly conveying freight from Holland to Denmark and from Denmark to Hol- land are mysteriovsly uncoupled and dis. appear while passing over the Intervening German territory, Released After Cargoes Unloaded. Dutch fishing boats, too, are often selzed off the coast by German patrol boats and taken into German ports, wherice they are released after their ear- #oes have been unloaded to the evident sétisfaction of the skippers. Dozens of Rhine lighters pass dally up and down the river whose course runs through Germany und Holland, and occasionally one s held up because of the présence of Ulcit cargo; but it is possible that for cach one stopped a number of others pass muster with forbidden goods on board and are recelved with welcome by the German authorities. ¥From numerous points along the fronfler, closely guarded though it is by The Home of “0Old A | ter | are | [ gives the wily IMAHA, THUR Banked to Permit the Racers Maintaining Top'Speed Dutch troops, come reports of eattle and horses being driven across Into German tory where the lines of sentinels thin or woods prevent a clear view The gains to be secured by the running of contraband are so tempting that the cfforts of the authorities have been rem- dered tutile. Practically half the Dutch troops mobilized are engaged guarding the frontlers, not against for- elgners, but against Dutchmen trying to pass contraband. It is difficult, however to guard every yard of the border-line and If the attention of a sentry can be distracted for only a few minutes this smuggler his chance to across with his goods. now get Rewards for Soldier The Dutch soldler, himself until re- cently a civilian, naturally - disiik rhooting at his own countrymen, even when they are observed in the act of evading the law. The government has, therefore, Leen compelied to offer some inducement to augment this alertness in putting a stop to this profitable trade, whose success brings the government into many difficulties with the bellig- erent powers, who accuse the Dutch of acts not in accord with strict neutrality. A reward amounting to 10 per cent of the value of goods wselzed In {llegal transit is now offered to the soldiers and this has had ere becoming more frequent dally. On seve: have shot and killed smugklers bave defied their summons to halt while engaged in contraband running. | | | in | First Turn on the Omaka Jpeed:}v a large parcel as It was about bords MANY MORE LUNATICS TO BE RESULT OF BIG WAR (Correspondence of the Asociated Press.) LONDON, June 8 -8ir James Crichton- Browne, who stands in the forefront of English authorities on mental and ner- vous diseases, says that one of the sad- dest results of the war will be n great increase in the number of lunatics. Addressing the annual meeting of the Asylum Workers' association, he sald: ““Much of the aftermath of war will find its way Into asylums. The enormous number of cranial injuries will undoubt- dly lead to much mental impairment. The large number of cases of shock to the nerves and overstrain will cause much neurasthenia and other disorders. Thers has been throughout the . whole country immeasurable sorrow and be- reavement which in many cases will deepen into morbid melancholy. GERMAN IS NOT A POPULAR LANGUAGE IN LONDON NOW (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, June ~The whole of of smuggled to be taken goods just scross the such effect on their|Greater London, with its population of watchfulness that captures of smugglers [ over 7,000,000, has produced only eighteen | students who wish to study German at 1 occasions recently soldiers|the special summer sessions of the free who | schools, which open this month. The educational authorities were pre- One | pared to open classes in German in thirty- soldler is reported to have received $400|three districts of the city, but one clas as his share of the reward for stopping JETTER BREWING CO., will suffice for all the applicants. For [the study of French there were applica- |tlons from 1,100 students. One hundred | students are to take the study of Rus- illln. |QuITS RATHER THAN TO HELP MANUFACTURE ARMS (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, June 10.—~W. R. Moore, head of the large gasoline manufacturing com- pany ‘“‘Peters Limited,” has resigned from all connection with the firm be- cause the directors voted to place their plant at the disposal of the government for the manufacture of munitions. Mr. Moore's letter of resignation “Deep religlous convictions will not al- low me willingly to take part in the manufacture of munitions and I should | not have become assoclated with the company had 1 thought that any such contingency would arise. As it has arisen there is one course open to me, and 1 resign therefore my position as chairman and director of the company.” CHINA WOULD SAVE OLD BUILDINGS FROM VANDALS (Correspondence of the Associated Pre: Pl G, June 10.—~President Yuan-8hi- Kal has received a petition from the gov- ernor of Shenal for authorization to pro- ceed 'with repeirs on the decaying mauso- leump of the Chow dynasty which are 1o- cated In Hslenyang district of that prov- ince. These edifices epitomize stylas of Chinese architecture of thousands of years ago In addition to preserving the tablets of rulers and sages of anclent times, and it is desired to both from vandaliem and the destruction by the elements. save them, | |to send twentys | TURKS FEAR THE SUBSEAS| lBut in Spi | of Thu They Conhnnel to Send Out Vessels Loaded | with Ammunition. | STRAIT STRO NGLY ARMED ’ | | (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) | CONSTANTINOPLE, June 24 rkish | steamers still run up the Sea of Mar- | mora from Constantinople to Gallipoli |and Chanak, notwithstanding the activ- | ity of the British submarines. Their cargo is mainly war stores and muni- tions nyone who wishes to ship as | whether he bo Turk or alien, officlal permission to make and passenger, | must have {the trip. The fear the of submarines is very strong Turkish sailors, and the | steamers bound for the fighting zone silp away from their docks at odd hours, gen- erally midnight or later with a squad of sharpehooters, twelve or more in num- ber, stationed along the raill on both sides of the boat, rifles In hand, strain- ing their out over the waters in | search of the enemy. The Sea of Mar- mora Mas many porpoises, and to the | { excited imagination every porpoise ssems | a submarine. So the firing is frequent. | The crack of the rifles tends to steady | the nerves, however, so that by the time the real danger sone comes into sight [ ttone. the soldlers are quite indifferent to dan- ger, and lounge about the deck with ut- ter contempt for the under-water enemy. A little out of Constantinople the steamers pass the blg powder works, which even in the blackness of night present a scene of modern war, Eight { towering chimneys beich forth smoke and flame, and the glare of the lighted windows tell of the struggle going on to keep peace with the demand for muni- Ten hours from nstantinople finds the ship in the broadest part of the Sea of Marmora, and a few hours later. the peninsula of Gallipoll begins to draw near. This section of the country is far from desolate. Every acre 15 cultivated. Roads wind in. and out along the shore, and windmills crown the crest of the ridge of Gallipoll, Wherever the sea pushes into the land to form a bay, there is a little town, busy and prosperous in a Turkish manner of speaking. In every case the sallent feature is a sky-plercing minaret. At fixed points along the road, white tented military camps squat agamst the green landscape. At QGallipoli a curfous feature is pro- vided by large black and white sign- boards erected here and there over many of the buildings of the town. These are to Indicate neutral property. How the owners hope that the gun-pointers of | the ships in the Gulf of Saros, many miles away behind the hills, can see these slgns is not explained among eyes Prisoners to Protect Town. The tact that several important struc- | tures here were hit by those skyrocket- ing English shells impelled Enver Pasha. French and prisoners from Constanfinople to housed in Gallipoll, where they subsist=d for six days at the expense of Hoffman i‘hllllr\ secretary of the American em who accompanied them officially. A feature of Chanak is the collection of cats living in the Street of the Lame Camel. They were gathered from vari- | ous destroyed houses by & kind hearted Turk, who now feeds them. Chanak is only the shell of & city. Be yond the white houses that line the sea- front, there is nothing, except in the di- rection of Kilid Bahr, from which it is separated by only a few hundred yar of water, Only when the visitor actually sees this narrow passage, swept by over fifty elght-inch guns mounted thirty feet above the water, does the difficuity of attempting to force it become clear Every inch of the surface of the water is plotted forts, and it needs but an instant's culation to get the exact range of any ships entering the zone Two thousand shells per hour fell In Chanak during one of the bombardments by the British fleet, but the casualties in Ipglsh on the artillery maps in the | (e3P, tpntn gty and y wounded ' Tk "!nmuk. b tha forts was not This ls proof enougd that the attacking land forti fications with ships, even when they ar¢ armed with the most powertul guns, still leave a heavy margin of advantage with the forts. AVIATOR MENTIONED FOR ! 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