The Smuggling Area To the Editor of the "Nowtit-Ciuxa Darcy News"
Sin—One reads in local papers (and doubtless the same kind of ews is found in the Shanghai papers) to the effect that the contraband now being brought into China by Japanese vessels is being landed at Peitaiho etc, For the benefit of your rendfers, and more especially For visitors to ths Peitaiho Beach this summer, might T ask you please to publish the fact that positively no cargo is being landed within the beach area? The cargo is being discharged from vessels, which anchor off—on. the eastern side—opposite the sand dunes, which would be about two miles to the north-east of the Eagle Rock houses, while other vessels anchor about two or so miles to the westward of the Tal River. The Tai River is the western boundary of the Beach area, but the nearest houses to the stream would be about half a mile or more eastward of it, Cargo Is not even being trans-Ported to the station over roads lead-Ing from the beach to the Junction.
During the heavy blows these vessels shelter in our bays. Often a fleet of about thirty-five vessets—one or two about five hundred tons. bur~ then, others, say nearly all of them, range between thirty and sixty tons—can be counted anchoring for shelter under Lighthouse Point, Even then it is very rare to see a sailor from these vessels moving about the beach area, G. Barowsx, Manager, Peitaiho Properties Service.
Peitaiho Beach, May 4.
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