The Mixed Court and other tri-burials have furnished so many arms-smuggling cases in- recent months that some of the public may have been persuaded that only in the Treaty Ports is the campaign against the evil being waged. This would be a wrong view to get abroad, for as a matter of fact great activity is being shown over a very large part of the Far East in the attempt-to combat it. Hongkong is of course, the place where the most exemplary sentences of all are given, hardly anybody found with a spare pistol in his possession getting away with less than six months. An interesting report from Japan now gives evidence of increased activity on the part of the police there, and when all is said and done the number of seizures taking place all over the Far East must be very considerable. In the first six months of 1922 the Kobe Water Police had only 13 cases to handle, the arms and ammunition -heing valued at 12,- 000: yen,. while in: the first six months of the present year 23 cases have been dealt with, the value being estimated at $29,000.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.