Increased Efficiency of Service Unavailing if Japanese Military Disarm Preventive Men _unwarrantable obstruction of their operations were abandoned the Customs Preventive authorities in the North would be able smoothly and before the lapse of many weeks to abolish or reduce to negligible proportions the smuggling activities ud restore proper control of the import, of articles into northern ports, This is no vain contention, for the recent reorganization of the Customs Service for strengthening the preven live machinery and for general protection of Customs interests has been extraordinarily successful. It is esti-mited now that the Preventive Services of the Customs are able to detect annually the attempted smugelof goods' to the value of about $8,000,000 and it may be concluded that the duty Involved is about $3,000,000. It is obvious that results of this kind do not' accrue from Meiency.
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