Kumano Maru, was arrested at Moji a few days ago on a charge of smuggling morphia from Kobe to Shanghai in numerous lots since last year. Examination by the police, says the report, showed that three stokers of the steamer had been, acting in collusion with the arrested passenger in the illicit trade. The amount of the smuggled drug, chiefly morphia, is very big and Kobe is believed to have been the centre of the smugglers' operations.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.