SECRET TUNNEL FOUND
FRANCE TO -BELGIUM
GUN-RUNNING SUSPECTS
ARRESTED
(Received June 12, 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 11
The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that police and Customs officers discovered an electrically-lit, cemented tunnel with an underground railway, leading from the Chateau Mont de Peruwelz, between Mons and Valenciennes,' into a house in Belgian territory. A quantity of tobacco and other contraband, besides secret defence documents, were found. Gun-running is suspected.
The police arrested the inmates of the chateau, a Frenchman, Roger Mitaine, and two women, Carmencita Olivares and Violette van Biesbroeck.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 136, 12 June 1939, Page 10
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