The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09

WW the Persian gulf and of the w efforts to suppress the traf-
 fic. A military expedition
 recently left Bombay to cooperate
 with the British navy in an endeavor
 to stop the smuggling of arms. The
 illustration will afford an excellent
 idea of how this work is being carried
 out by sepoys, who are here seen en- trenched on the sea coast in readiness
 and on the lookout for gun-running natives, who have now practically sew, cred themselves from Persian control and are equipped with modern fire arms.
 Gun-running is dangerous business in any country. An old gun-runner in New York said recently:
 T have carried guns over the Afg- han frontier, across the northern bor- ders of India into Afghanistan, when rife would be worth upon delivery literally it's weight in silver. It woulol be taken from off the camers back and put into a balance, bars of silver weighing down the other side. But it meant many privations and much toll.
 Very nearly all the time there's gun-running out of New York. The vessels invariably start from Brook lyn. It is quieter there. fewer people late at night in the streets and a small craft somehow looks more nat ural there. I find myself some dark night at eleven o'clock down by the waters edge in Brooklyn waiting for the trucks. Everything has been ar ranged; nobody is to see anything. By singular coincidence this night the approach to the pier and the pier itself are strangely deserted. The only footballs are those I occasionally hear of my two trustworthy assistants. Like myself. they are dressed to look like the better grade of Iaboring men. They have been with me so often that they know just what I want. They patrol, scenting out possible danger and any hint of the unusual
 We have guarded every avenue, but we are never safe. Somebody may get wind of what is being done. At any moment polite may spring out upon us. Detectives may be on our trail. If they were they would work secretly like us and overwhelm us suddenly. The harbor police must be looked out for. In the stream noise lessly patroling back and forth have two tugs. I plan so that every quar- ter hour can be where can get sig nals from them.
 Anxiety of the Gun-Runner.
 Nothing has ever happened yet, but any time something may. These are the most awful nights of my life. though I have passed through them many times. The vast responsibility, the complicated machine I have set up and that may go to pieces any sec ond, the possibility of the unexpected and the dreary waiting leave me, when the ship has safely pulled out and Is disappearing down the stream. 30 weak and shaking that I can hard ly stand. get to my home just after daylight and cannot sleep for hours
 ''The trucks have hired are timed to get to the pier head at a few min 1tes after eleven. They must not un- fer any circumstances arrive before 1t; it is probable they will be a little ate Their drivers handle them most and carefully so as not .o attract any attention AS the sec ,nds pass and I listen for the noise of wheels break into z cold sweat lest he wagons might have been held up.
 know they have safely started. A f. from New York saw theml oaded and leave and came to me. by rolley car bringing this news. Later a stationed hali way in ormed me they were still safe.
 More than half my strain Is over vhen the trucks arrive. On the spot
 feel I have a fair chance of con- l rolling conditions. But I am help { ess, or I feel am, as wait for the ound of the wheels ~The ship has been ready to sail ( inoe early morning. She is carrying ( own south a cargo of salt and corn. { The papers were signed during the ay and she was scheduled to sail, I o 1t was given out. with the after ( oon tide Some pretext. however, de-