Apart from Japanese smugglers, the statement says, there were estimated to be some 400 Koreans at Shanhalkwan and 200 at Chinwangtao, and during Seplymber a smuggling concern called the Shih Ho Transportation Company was established which said to have registered more than 1,000 Chinese coolies for employment 'a5 carriers, 'This marked the beginning of open smuggling,, the statement adds, and being. armed: with clubs, stones and pistols, the smugglers' "did not hesitate to attack Customs officers at the slightest appearance of interference."
During this period, the statement] reveals, the smuggled goods into North China were limited mainly arlifeial silk yarn, besides the smuggling of silver' out of the country. The Peiping-Mukden Railway was utilized, and under pressure
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