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Unlikely Arms Plot Sours On Atlantic to Vera Cruz
Special Agent Billy Gard of the U S Department of Justice uncovers a plan to ship $750000 worth of Mauser ammunition to Huerta via the Esmiranga. He tails the Russian Egeloff, exposes a network with Valentines, and uses a Confederate cipher marked by the keyword Russian whiskers to warn ships off Veracruz while the cargo drifts to Mobile.
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Billy Gard
United States Department of Justice
Esmiranga
Véra Cruz
Mexico
United States
New York
G. Hgeloff
Russia
Latin America
Manhattan
G. Egeloff
Victoriano Huerta
Department of Justice
Egeloff
Huerta
Union Square
Hartford
Valentines
Latin-America
Valen‘dines
Gard
Printing House
Jane Gates
Lily Maid
Barrett
Simmons
Brooklyn
Odessa
City of Naples
Naples
Lilly Gard
Home Office
City of
Italy
Europe
Atlantic
Gibraltar
Spain
Dardanelles
Bosporus
Black Sea
Mediterranean
Hamburg
Mr. Egeloff
Senor
McKay
London
Mr. Sanchez
McKay Wasunkeen
Vera Cruz
Warsaw
Sanchez
America
Paris
Coleman
William H. Gard
Mexico City
Senor Sanchez
Caramba
Washington
San Juan de Ullao
Plaza de la Constitucion
Cortez
Maximilian
Mobile