The Koreans, the Customs report relates. also boarded the tug and attacked the Customs party savagely with clubs, seriously injuring two of the affeers. One was rescued in a semi-conscious condition and removed to hospital on a stretcher. The, other was bruised about the body snd is Still confined to his quarters.
'The smuggling situation," the report states, "has reached proportions Probably unparalleled in the annals Of China's Customs history, and the matter of prevention the' Customs authorities in the Tientsin and Chin-Wangtao districts have been baulked at every turn."—Central News.
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