VERITABLE ARSENAL.
War Weapons Hidden in Butcher's Residence.
UNEXPECTED POLICE FIND
i K'-c iveil 10 a n: i PARIS. February 21. The police while searching a butcher's house in a ijuiet street for n stolen motor rnr discovered in the dining-room a veritable arsenal. The walls were covered with the larest designs of firearm?, including SO ritlewith bayonets. 100 revolvers. 10.000 rille cartridges, 201b of explosives, a numlior of detonators and fuses, and also 10 light :ua chine-suns in the parnge. It is l>elieved these were intended for use bv international revolutionary organisations. The owner of the house. Leopold Tan•anl. posed as an enthusiastic collector ■if arms, and hail been already twic--sentenced for possessing arms, but both times the weapons were restored to him.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1927, Page 7
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124VERITABLE ARSENAL. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1927, Page 7
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