Consulate Warns of Rules "that Must be Observed The American Consulate-General at Shanghai has recently received advice that shipments of furs from China to interior points in the United States either by parcel post or otherwise, and cargo entered at tone port and shipped to another in the United States in the original packing, are subject to the provisions of Section 393 of Title 18 of the United States Code (Section 243 United States Criminal Code), as amended by the Act approved June 15, 1035, Title 27, Number 148, 74th Congress, which reads as follows:—"All packages or containers in which wild animals or birds, the dead bodies or parts thereof, or the eggs of any such bodies, are shipped, transported, carried, brought, or conveyed, by any means whatever, from one state, territory, or the District of Columbia, to, into, or through another state, territory, oF the District of Columbia, or io or from a foreign country, shall be plainly and" clearly marked or Tabelled on the outside thereof with the names and addresses of the shipper and consignee and with an accurate statement showing by num= ber and kind the contents thereof."
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