Large Seizures by Customs Authorities 'A motor fishing-boat, carrying ap. proximately $80,000 worth of artifcial silk, and believed to have been fon her maiden voyage, was picked up by the Revenue Department of the Chinese "Maritime Customs off the mouth of the Yangtze estuary on Friday last, The carya consisted of 300 bags of artificial sith of 120 th. weight each, The average price of his material at present is in the neighbourhood of $220 per th.
Preceding this seizure, another of roughly $50,000 was made at a Wharf, according to reports in' the Chinese press. Revenue officers on duty at the Wharf on Wednesday noticed a large quantity of what apparently was cotton cloth being loaded Into ten waiting. trucks. They. In. vestigated the shipment " and found more than 100 piculs of artificlat silk, wrapped in cotton cloth, A number of Japanese are reported to have been directing the unloading, Dut they escaped before any arrest could be effected.
Tt is also believed, according to the same sources, that this seizure.will bbe proof of the existence of an ex tensive smuggling organization with branches at Kobe, Honglcong, Tame. tao, Daizen and Shanghai
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