Operations of Gang Smuggling from Macao NON. SPECIAL service Manila, Apr. 3.
Police and the judiciary believe that they are about to. uncover operations of a gang which for some time has been suspected of smuggling opium into the Philip pines from Macao, the Manila "Times" says this afternoon, 'The newspaper asserts that ale though Salvador Manudd, 2 postal clerk, to-day pleaded not' guilty to charges of importation of opium in violation of the law, and of bribing officials, it is understood that man intends to withdraw this plea and Act as a witness for the prosecution against several Bureau of Posts employees who are involved in the smuggling ring.
Manudd, the newspaper indicates, merely has been a tool in the hands of influential men engaged in the opium trade—United Press.
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