Dairen, May 23.
The alleged ringleader of a gang of gold smugglers in Kobe and Shanghai, "a native of Chinghai, Cheleiang, 39, who was arrested here fon May 18, is being taken to Kobe lon the s. Fuse Maru to-morrow.
Discovery of the gang's activities, a large quantity of gold bars having been smuggled from Japan, through Kobe, to Shanghai, was made by the Kobe water police some time ago.
Having heard of the arrest of his accomplices in Kobe and at the Wayside Wharf, Shenghai, Cheng is} said to have decamped for Dairen Dut he was arrested whilst disemparking from the s. Ural Maru.
Smuggling has been going on for a long time, it is said, by travellers between Kobe and the Shanghai, gold for the most part being fastened to underwear—Rengo.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.