The Chinese authorities would seem to be less active and etfectiv Across the border from Pograni chaya there is a long string smugglers who carry their lives in their hands in the dangerous busi ness of smuggling "luxuries" into Siberia, They collaborate with fellow-smugglers on this side of the horder and between the two sets, Lerge quantities of articles on the Soviet "Iuxury" are nightly smuggled in and carried to Viadivostock. Perfumery costing a dollar' or so a bottle in Harbin is worth Viadivostock and other Si Berian towns, and dresses, under wear, hosiery ete, likewise fetch' fourfold figures once they find their way across the border. The Soviet authorities deal protiy. sharply' with people who attempt to smu gle prohibited articles into their territory but do not seem anxious, to prevent smuggling front their territory into Manchuria.
1 os Smugeling of Humanis Smuggling is for only! done' in dope: "Many a person has come to Harbin alt the way from Irkutsk or: even Moscow. and Leningrad without 'a: passport' of any kind. The procedure is: to-go as far Blagoyeschensk- and-then through
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