Italian custom house officials 014
just discovered a large contrsb-
"company," with headquarters in Mjik
and Lucerne, which regularly pays &
idends secretly and whose field of 0
erations extends across a large tr#5
of the Swiss-Italian frontier, from
stores of Lake Maggiore up to I~uj ,
Over 1,000 persons are involved ink
operations, and there have been bu
arrests recently, though a number
those implicated have escaped II5
Italy by crossing the frontier .^
Switzerland, where of course theYC'
not be arrested. The contraband g9a_0
consisted chiefly of saccharine, su5
and Swiss watches, which were s
gled across the frontier in trucks
the connivance of several railway e
ployes.
There is in friendship somethil
all relations, and something
them all. It is the golden thread W
ties the hearts of atl the worldJ3
Evelyn..
