Tokyo, June 24.
Police to-day claimed to have unearthed one of the biggest gold-smuggling rings in the country, in operation since 1033, with the arrest of eight Japanese, According to investigators, the ring managed lo ship, out to Shanghai more than 1,012.50 kilogrammes of the yellow metal, which netted them a Yolurn of $7,400,000, 'A. Chinese, residing. in Shanhai, is said to have been named by his Japanese accomplices as the miastermind in the scheme, which utilized Japanese, Chinese and Korgan seamen to transport the gold, The metal was obtained in Japan, Manchoukuo and Korea and shipped out from Nagasaki and Kobe, Shizuma Mori and Tsuneuiro Ya-made were named by the police as managers of the gang's activities, re~ spectively, in Osaka and Kobe. Domei,
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