Evasion of Customs Stations Near Tientsin Tientsin, May 22, While arrangements are being made between the local Customs and rally ]way authorities for closer ce-operation, /smuggling gangs seem to have already' employed counter-measures to continue the illicit trade.
Investigations reveal that the smug-siers have opened a new route to smooth the flow of their clandestine imports, and to evade the Customs officers at the local railway stations.
Instead of passing through Tientsin smuggled goods are now being transported directly from the demilitarized Yangtsun, a station north of Tientsi Ina round-about way by trucks and other vehicles, The result is that though there has been a phenomenal decrease of smuggled goods arriving in Tientsin from East Hopel, large quantities of these illicit goods are being piled high at the Yangtsun station, Sugar Merchants 11it Meanwhile Jocal_ sugar merchants declare that their business has been most seriously affected by the smuggling in North China.
Of the some 100 wholesale houses for sugar, it is learned, over two-thirds have closed down with the remaining 30 odd shops in a semi-paralyzed slate.
All the surviving stores are learned fo have wired to their refineries. in South China instructing them to stop making further shipments to Tientsin in order to avoid further losses: Central New:
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