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A Brisk Traffic: GUNS FOR THE REBELS
By David Divine
G
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in
going on in the Mediterranean on {1 fairly considerable scale. Revolutions, rebellions can succeed only with APINA. And
trouble- in the four
apote of Morocco, Algerin. the Gaza strip and Cyprus, it is clear that arme have been supplied.
Nationalism IN U. the Ists of all the trouble, but this second factor of armis is perhaps of equal impor. tance.
The musQUEEN 201 Oued Zein was carried out by a strongly- armed forve using modern
weapons
In Algeria modern, quækfring weapons were used.
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had a leent turn of speed to get away frome odanost any of the Customs vessels llen JU AP And could be bought Ful anything [12] 1 1,500 upwards.
The Britis had to contend with 2 vetain (PITAN of smuggling at that time. One gang. langely eunposed of Navy officers, carried out
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ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES
THE MILLION-POUND
NE quiet morning in January 1840, 11 well-dresse
*PLE
went into a bank in
Lombard ruts
the South Coast, KUN1226 yueting barbours jka Chiches- ter and Poole and the creeks in about Southampton. and Portsmouth
Bul smuggling was really bused on the intemational port ut Tangler Lying al the Atlantic mouth of the Strails of Gibraltar, Tangier, o free port and without normal extradition treadles (this last advantage is now disappearing), WHN natural base
Smuggling of tobacco WIN perhaps the most profitable of the "trades. An
Amount was
CRITROUS taken fro deserler! parts of the Spanish coast and 10 the area between Marsellies and the Spanish frontier or to
·endezvouLN
Street
and,
ex-
BANK PLOT
By S. W. Shelton
the
was
To this end
An
This fantastic story had interesting sequel. A full account was published in The Times, tuld the name of Allan Bogle,
the Florence banker, was mentioned 05 one of the conspirators.
He
He oficials much ikony kay foreign |
ovidence was not and admitted. Bogle won his case, with but his character was assessed
The and
A testimonial fund was opened
by the Lord Mayor of London to reimburse The Times for its
plaining that he was going It was almost impossible for the prepared. To avoid suspicion It Antwerp, "where he made the at once resigned from the bank was necessary to spread a large mistake of asking M. Agter, the and later brought an action for abroad, applied for a circu- numerous bunkers all over
whom they world to
were number of perators all lar letter of credit for £150 directed to be advised in every Europe to work to
over banker there, for a further £300. Libel, against The Times which xed time- under the same letter of credit, thereupon made a detailed to- Hia credentials were of the case of the lasue of such letters: table, The forged letters must The banker was suspicious, #6 vestigation. The full facts were highest--he was the titled each document, however, carried be simultaneously presented in Ireland admitted In conversa- brought to light but through Hun of a very high-ranking stamp and an authorised signa- tinent.
the insuing bank'e embossed
the principal cities of the Con- ilon that he was on his way back lack of French family and what is ure. The klentity of the boarer
to England via Ostend number of therefore declined to pay. more he produced the
re- cuid ve checked by his pass- people were brought into
the
communicated promptly quired amount in cash. In port
plot, all travelling under false the banker in Brussels who had at a farthing damages-and he due course the letter of
Nevertheless, the system WLS
names. They included the Baron paid £750 on the letter.
was refused costs. credit was hunded to him wide open to fraud. The marquis
d'Argusun und
mistress, police were informed He traveled freland was arrested selected as the firm whose cume Marie Desjardins,
on April Expensive Probe and he was bowed out.
he would use for his scheme the under the name of de Castel, 25 on board the Ostend steamer important banking house of while she used the title of Com- bound for London with another
tesse de Vauder. Glyn, Halifax, Milis and Co.
Others were of the gang, Mrs Pipe. The first step in the
an ex-toutman named Frederick Dr Coulson); lits
ht genuine document Pipe (alias to obta
Under Interrogation by 21 as a specimen. This was done, wife Charlotte Anne Pipe (allas Belgian police, Ireland broke expensive probe and in recogni- de- as we have seen, by the Baron Lenky), who had been tried at down and gave dotalis of as Euro- Louis d'Arguson. Now a supply the Central Criminal Court for much of the plot as he knew. paper had rendered by
exposing The management of the
former husband; Warning same type of paper was poisoning her
notives appeared in The Times refused to accept. nceded. The manufacturer whose Alexander Graham, son of Cun- the Brussels and Paris
ards papers which
from the fund, how- Wi
the other conspirators anything The banker read-and acted upon.
but requested By the ever,
What the be used hesitated time
to found two Glyn's had sent an
agent money but Coulson to Paris to open an inquiry the scholarships. There, which bear
the the
paper's at of the gang had quickly dis-
nume, are still in put
existence-DE
Christ's persed in all directions. The
Hospital show of
French authorities
lied and the City of London School, were called
A memorial tablet was also: anger, in, conferences were held with
erected over the entrance. the Chief of Police, the Ministry
The of the Interior, and even the
Times offices in Printing House Square, where it may still Ministry of War.
But to no
be seen; a permanent reminder avell....
of "the most remarkable and extensively fraudulent Con-
To all appearances it was a perfectly normal business in transaction, yet it was, fact, the first step in wil Innocent conspiracy designed to
fraud the principal pean bankers of no less sum than £1,000,000.
The two lead..
looking dishing vessels just out of sight of the shore on dark nights.
GANG OF WOMEN
There was even one ML run by women, mostly ex-Wrens. operating out of Tangier.
as
ing
LBAN
in Agures
amazing
affutr
vere
the
Frenchmati,
the
de
und
乱打
Hijacking developed trude grew, and there was an. extraordinary period of lawless- ness for some years.
Smuggling bas diminished now. The operations, due to government action in all the countries concerned, are no longer as obvious and as flagrant as they were, but they still go on with gunrunning added to the tobacco and liquor "trades.” Where do the guns and on- mimition come from? Largely from Frantee
During The War the RAF dropped thousands of tons of
amanumitiba and
an! Other sceupled
ans
France
countries.
Marquis
Bourbelle.
Seut
named Cun- ninghame Gru- Bout-
D
belle was a resiz of many socom- plishments.
his younger days
had attached
he
been
various French and Embassies,
was for u time a member of the
into
French
Police.
iffe
to
tion
was
When stubility returned France an appeal for the hand- ing in of arms dropped to the underground movements Issued The total response was, believe, about four percent.
vas! bulk of the arms dropped was issued through the underground movements
The
und
Seenet
But his
บ
of diasipa All over Europe they spread
the
a man in a duel their conspirators' net......The
his
kifaxi
and croped with.
with operation was timed to the wife's maid) created such minute......... But A stupid scandal that he Was forced
to mistake brought disaster.... leave Paris and
It turns up with almost every Leghorn, in Tuscany. major crime that happens in France today. Dominici, the farmer accused of the Drunt- mord murders, had at least one carbine,
HIGH PRICES
on
the
tion of the pubile service
the case.
aver.
the
★ Traced To Spain spiracy ever brought to light in
to
The mastermind, de Bourbelle, was traced to Spain and then lost. Cunninghome frham gi to Corsica but returned Florence in order to destroy his copying machine. He was seized but instead of by the
police, being held was conducted
nhighame Graham (alias Robert the border of the Duchy
"Tuscany and ordered never Nicholson); Charles de Puindy return tire again!
.and
(allas Count de Pindray) the engraver Perry (alias re- land).
OVET
of
10
De Pindray was caught ot Jaray, in Moldavia, but on The gang assembled at Alx- turning some 1,000 frames to his was. Bot at liberty. la-Chapelle (for North Europe) Others of the gang were traced and Nico (for South Eve), to Malla and Gepos but were
WCTO
pursuerg
retained in private hands. retire to a country house near name appeared in the watermark dispersing with their pockets full then lost. No arrests were made.
of the document at first refused, of the forgeries. Cunninghame Graham,
Everything of but when told that the paper
started according. Gartmore, in Scotland, came of was needed for pictorial editions to plan and operations an ancient family and for a num of certain publications he sold carried out in nearly every ber of years represented the de Bourbelle sufficient for his untry in Emope. The pro- of County of Stirling in Parliament.
gramme of a single member purpose. But having squandered a large
the gang-Cotilson -- will givo Opo of the the Inhertiano he left Scotland Two engravers were given the some kiles, of some time in 1828 to avoid his job of copying the letters of coup: creditors, eventually settling in credit. For eccurity reasons they
Genoa 1451,500 242 Turin 2 600 inter
Florence some four or five years qceived the document in 18 or
The first man arrested in the hunt for the murderer of Janet Marshall had a service weapon. prices have been paid Fligh and the guns with ammunition ·
have been shipped across by survivors of the old cigarette smugglers of Tangler.
There in small difficulty in landing them on the Algarian coast, with its long stretches of mountainous. ahore without roads.
The Gazu affair has been largely carried out by the armed forces of the two govemments concerned, but it is clear that somo legal arms have also entered into the problem here.,
Off Cyprus the Royal Navy has prizus, a number of calquen, but is certain that a number of carmes have got through,"
Ti looks and though son patrols along the Mediterranean const Kilner will have tó zu, inuch im¬ proved before (these eñovements
Ingenious Plan
23 Milan Z 800
April 21
on
37
20 different sections. Mean-
while de Bourbelle frestalled a
amall press in his lodgings the top ficor of a house in
in
tr.
24 Parm 2.800 £1,000
20
In the last elly, Coul
by Cumminghame Florence to that his father had sent him to
Exactly how he and de Bour- Regent Street and engaged an- son cashed only £200 at first, belle became acquainted is not other (and bankrupt en but returned inter and requested known, but the principles, pur- graver named Thomas Furry to a further £1,300. The banker sulta, and' tastes Ware very print of several hundred copies. besliated, but Coulson put on a similar and they were increas- When these were ready they show of treat anger and
sald ingly in each other's company, were disp They were soon
Joined
Graham, whom Italy buy pictures. If the Graham's stepson, Allan George task was to forge the signature, momy was not forthcoming he Bagle, a former lieutenant in the of Clyn's on each letter THE BOULA return tho £300 alrendy. Royal Navy, and at the time in was done by copying on a received,
and He father would machine (invented by Grandm) bring an action aghiat the
ostorza
a partner in the banks house of
De
"THIS
of Bogle, Karick bem a genuine domument in the Landon bank for "expenses and in Florence,
Bourboils and Graham de- bank
visas simple but ingenious duood forgeries wer
this plan to defraud the banking that one of
world by forgery, hot of bank Glyn'e was later notes but of the circular. Zatters' tinguinhosate of Corelift Lawand by, the peli, trúc and the cipal barskare f London and "The dog
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