The Archive · 1936

Motor Launches Used

Tientsin, June 7 A total of 2,004 bays of sugar has. been smuggled Into the elly during the past two days. Instead of being transported by the Peiping-Liaoning Rallwy as has usually been the case, the contraband was shipped by motor Taunehes from the coast and land-tthe wharves in a "certain for-ign Concession" here. goods by renins for the south con-Forcible conveyance, of smuggled Unues unabated on the Tientsin-Pu-Railway. Besides this, an aver age of over 10 bags of "smuggled foods, mostly artificial silk (rayon) and cigarette paper, is being trans ported every night' on the No. 305 train in defiance of both the Railway and Customs officers.

According to a message fror ping, a consignment of 110 of Sugar, weighing 60 tons, and bearing Japanese labels, arrived in that city yesterday from Liushouyin, north~ eastern Hopel, by the Pelping-Liao-ning Railway via Tientsin—Kuo Bfin.

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