Chinese merchants have organized among themselves antismugeling. associations and are required Feeisler stocks of raw materials with their respective guilds and" their books and works are open to inspec: lon for possible purchases. smuggled raw materials. Even in Tientsin, smuggled goods from the Japanese Concession, delivered at a Chinese shoo or factory in Chinese territory, is liable to seizure' present.' Many" such seizures have been made, In order to encourage people aid sin the detection of "smnugaled cods, 50 percent. of the proceeds from" the sale of the confiscated Roods is given to the informer asa reward. As a result of this, Greds of cases are being reported monthly to the authorities
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