Foochow, May 25.
'Smuggling operations in southern Pukien on the coast are becoming {increasingly serious, according to word received from the Amoy Customs authorities, The contre of the smug-ling gang, it Is learned, is at Chin-chiang and Huian near' the Chuenchow Bay about 45 miles north of Amoy, Their headquarters, according to reports, is in the form of a Transportation Company, organized by un-'Scrupulous merchants In ce-operation with natives of Formosa.
The Transportation Company, the Amoy Customs has been informed. in making preparations for expansion, and. the local Customs has already. notified the Chinchiang and Hulan authorities to exert their utmost in checking the licit trade in cooperation with the Iand and water police—Central News, Contraband Pours Into Tsinan Tsinan, May, 30.
Despite the enforcement of the now anti-smuggling measures. large quantities of smuggled foods con-Uinued to pour into this city during the past few days by the Ticntsin-Pukow Railway. Arliftial silk, cljaelles and paper constituted the prin-
Tin view of this situation Gen. Han Fu-chu, Chairman of the Shantung. Provincial Government, has instructced the local police and gendarmes to help in curbing the activities of the smugglers, "A. Heuchow message states that. under the order of Mr. Lee Tunj hua, Assistant Director of the Gon-eral_Anti-Smugeling Bureau, 0 total of 72). bales of sugar_weighing 60 tons transported from Tientsin have Been detained at Hsuchow Station.
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