Hongkong, Sept. 12.
'A. syndicate dealing in dangerous drugs, =with—shipping facilities in Shanghai, has come to brief by the conviction of three of fts members. Great interest is attached to this case s traffic in these commodities is receiving world-wide attention.
The four men involved are Yang Hsiung-hing, Liang Yeh-obeah, Li San, and Pah Hsiung. Their arrest was due to the swift work of the police, in ce-operation with officers Of the Revenue Department. They visited a house in Rossel. Street and seized £0,000 heroin pil. cook employed by a herbalist was found in the premises and was taker {into custody. A packing case belong. ing, to the herbalist was searched and to the satisfaction of the police Grugs and machines for the mat facture of drug pills were discovered, The owner was later arrested sit_No. 1 Matheson Stret.
'The articles seized correspond with an invoice list and shipping oeuments which came into the pos session of the police as the result fof another raid which' they carried out at an upparentty unoccupied house in No, 11 Hok Sze Terrace. It was in this place that Yang Hsiung-hing was found in the act! of manufacturing heroin pills. The quantity of pills seized on this oe: casion amounted to over 170,000, Including other articles forming past of an outfit used for such manufacture, Later a fourth man named Liang Yeh-obeah was also detained and charged with aiding and abetting with the crime. Li San is the name of the cook-boy engaged by the herbalist, Pan Hsiung.
Accomplice gives it Away Li San was discharged when he agreed to give evidence for the prosecution, He testified that following his arrest, which had oceurred while he was carrying a black box, he took the police to No. Russel Street in an effort to find the herbalist. While there he saw. packing case in a cubicle in The knew his employer lived. Tt was in this way that the police subsequently discovered the heroin pills and arrested the culprits.
Both Yang Hsiung-hing "and Liang Yeh-obeah were sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard Jabour. With regard to Pan Hsiung, Mr. Lindseli(the senior Magistrate) passed a similar sentence with the option of a fine of $2,000.
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