The Archive · 1925

Two More Shipments

After a week of the closest seratiny of outbound shipments, customs officials hero had their patence rewarded by discovery of two more trunks containing morphine, This was valued at $60,000, The drugs came in 100 tins and were consigned from Flugge, Germany. With each seizure more va-Juable information leading to the mysterious source of the traffic is obtained. It is believed here that ver pool and other British port thorities have a good working Ancwledge of the operating gang. This second shipment of morphine arrived in Quebec by the str. Mon-those on October 80, consigned to, Kobe, to order. It was expressed to: Vancouver. The customs men were watching for the trunks when they arrived and pounced on them. The shipment excepting in quantity was identical with that first seized, When the Empress of Asia docked here on (Novemebr 4 spected offers in the Canadian customs service raided the engine room and Tocated morphine valued at Proximately" $5,000 _und" pipes. The "drugs were in enver lopes and wrapped in coarse paper. Keen eyes of the searchers however, detected little pieces of string that hung behind the pipes-and soon discovered the hiding place. For years Shiam"Reemtiy Chines have opium. ken to. white: drugs because they are'casier to land: Bhere have been several other: compdeatively smai-Jer seizures, "Death Winnipeg: police Tim, Chinese,"whose skeleton was found in the bush at Tuxedo, suburb of Winnipeg. Tim disappeared from his on June 1 last. Police state that " strand of leciric cable was found about the neck of the skeleton just discovered and that a watch and chain and sum of money was missing from the clothing. A small tree beneath Which the: skeleton was found gave evidence of having been pulled down by some weight. Altogether the indications are that the case is not one of suicide.

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