Expectation that the seizure here of 50 German-made Mauser tiples and 15,000 cartridges consigned to China would lead to arrest of members of a ring engaged in getting nwinitions to rival forces in China, was expressed by federal agents today. The riffes and cartridges were. detected as they were about to be taken aboard the steamer Protesilaus. Hundreds of rifles that are bought in Germany for about $3.50 each are coming into this city daily by mail and express, according to the agents, and are being bought up by agents of a Chinese faction, shipments being made across the Pacific when several dozen have accumulated.—Reuter.
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