'Though a part of the preventive service, the duties of the new force twill be quite distinct from the amining staff, whose excellent In the last' few months has put Jo number of spokes in the wheels Jot the smugglers. Whereas some time ago artificial silk agents Shanghal—to take an example—found it diMeult to dispose of their cargoes Jin Shanghai in face of the competition of smuggled artificial silk from the Shantung coast and from the south, one merchant told the "North [China Daily News" that now all his cargoes are delivered here and usually cleared through the Customs lby his own company at the request Jot those who had ordered them.
Formerly, he said, Chinese mer-Jchants in Shanghai asked his _company to deliver their goods in Hongkong in order to avoid the duties. From Hongkong they found their way into Kuangtung and thence to Shanghai by way of the mails by smuggling on.small ships and funks. The result was that artificial silk was being bought and sold here at prices with which companies that Jpaia the duty could not compete. The change in this situation he [ascribed to the check on [smuggling which, though not complete, had become effective enough to make the risks of getting con-Yraband through unpalatable to the day Jordinary trader.
He believed that there was still 2 quantity of smuggled goods coming Avspecial force of Revenue {done a lot of good, and enormous quantities of contraband had been seized. 'The smugglers, he continued, Jalso operate from Keelung in Fo: mosa getting their contraband into Pukien, whence it is distributed by similar' methods o those used in Kuangtung—the mails and small ships and junks.
Contraband Li Though the Customs have made huge seizures of contraband liquor, the smuggling in this direction is, still as bad as it was, "The liquor used to come in aboard ships from Hongkong and Japan, cunningly con-sealed in all sorts of unlikely places. Tunks and small craft also' brought in large amounts. A tightening up of "M2€. Herald" Photo.
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