Arms Supplied to Bandits in Manchuria.
Dairen, July 12, Japanese subjects in Manchuria have not quite recovered from the shock that seven of their own nationals were found guilty. of supplying bandits with" machine guns, rifles. pistols, hand grenades and ammunition in'various sections of Manchuria. of the arrest of the guilty parties and of the seizure of supplies in their possession were Withheld from publication by' the police until late on June 27.
The smuggling ring was exposed, according to the police, on April 17 when Kenji Iwamoto, driving a heavy motor truck, was stopped by 'a Japanese. gendarme outside the walled town of Mukden.
Under a yellow burlap covering the truck - were' found 50,000 rifle and machine-gun cartridges and several light machine-guns, the police declared.
Ammonition was sold at four sen a round and the machine-guns were priced at $500 each:
Twamoto's six fellow smugglers were rounded up and a thorough search of their lodgings. uncovered nearly 100,000 more rifle and machines-gun cartridges, and large supplies of machine-guns and trench engaged in. respectable callings, Five of the seven, men were the police said, ostensibly to conceal their activities with the bandits. said that the smugglers delivered their goods to agents of bandit groups who were -disguised 'Manchoukuo uniforms at various hamlets. near Mukden, whence the goods were carted to' bandit lairs. Reuter.
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