Close on $20,000 worth of smoking opiam was discovered and seized on the rear Northera liner Minnesota at Seattle on December 10, as the climax of " search in which the Customs, immigration and revenue cutter services joined forces. At the same time, says Seattle Exchange, clues were unearthed indicating the existence of a gigantic smuggling ring in Hongkong, with ramifications all through the Orient and slong the Pacific Coast of America, conducted on a scale worthy of a great industrial trast.
The big figures of the innesote, according to the best information in possession of the they say, by men who form sort of outer circle to the combine, It is considered possible, however, that the detection of their efforts to smuggle it into the United States will
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