Unload in Shallows Where Customs Cannot Follow Tientsin, Aug. 11.
As a result of the smuggling of artificial silk, more than" seventy silk stores and shops here have closed during the past few months.
'A novel method now employed by smugglers is to land their contraband goods at Chikou, on the coast and convey them from there to the interior in trucks or mule-carts. The Customs patrol boats cannot reach Chikou, as the water extremely shallow. As a coun-jer-measure, the Customs is estal Ushing a number "of barriers strategic points ziang the highways, to. check the illicit transport.—
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