Shanghai, May 11.
For transporting opium and heroin from Pootung to Shanghai, Sung Kya-meu. 35-year old boatman, was sentenced {o twelve years' imprisonment by the First Special District Court yesterday morning.
'Five' packets of opium, weighing 6,370 ounces, together with'144 ounces fof heroin found in his boat were Jconfiseated, The value of the narcotics was estimated ut about $100,000.
The arrest of the *oatman was made at the Old Ningpo Wharf in Honkew. on May 6, when the suspicions of two foreigners, Mr. A. M, Buchanan and Mr, R. J. Lucas, Jemployed at the Shanghai & Mong: kew Wharf Ca., were aroused. As they approached she boat, the Icedah jumped over to a boat flying a Japanese flag, it was reported. River [Police were called in and had the man arrested, Following investigations, in which the opium and heroin were ascer~ {tained to have been transported to the Shanghai side from Pootung, where a big narcotic gang was reported to be operating, the River Police turned the laodah' over to the [Settlement Police, The man was found to have been convicted on similar charges formerly.
The opium, according to examinations, came from Suiyuan,
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