Consular Police Hold Up a Total of $248,413
Holding up $248,413 and detaining 140 persons, the Japanese Consular police were' kept busy on Saturday morning, when the mas, Tatsuta Mart sailed catching silver smugglers who were trying (0 take the white metal out of Shanghai to Japan ports. In one stoup alone were 134 would-be smug liers, the total amount of silver ear-ried" by them being $242,263. This band, it is alleged, was organized by three men, who are said to have told the members that they had police Protection, and charged each of ths 134 $5 for every piece of baggage they intended to carry on board the ship.
'A few worked alone. Among these was Masukieht Matsumoto, a. Chin merchant with a store in' Dixwel Col, Beaumont was born in Washington, D.C, on October 7, 1878, He finished his education at Fordham University, New York, and was commissioned 'a second Lieutenant in the 'US. Marine Corps in February, 1900, rising by. appointments in successive years {oa lieutenant-colonelship in 1918, and a colonelcy in February, 1926, After serving in various parts of! the United States, he held the post of Officer of Naval intelligence in the Navy Department at Washington from January, 1920, to August, 1820. For the next three years he was in [command of the Marine Corps Schools) fat Quantico, and from 1925 to Nov-lamber, 1927, was the Officer in Charge fof Operations and Training Headquarters of the Marine Corps. was attached to the Navy War College from June, 1929, to May, 1930, and to the Army War College from August, 1930, to June, 1991.
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