Captain Summerfield is now on home leave, where he has been presented witha gold watch by the company as some token of their appreciation of his conduct: in his report Large Opium Haul In Bubbling Well Shanghai, Sept. 28, Eighty-six 1b. of raw opium and a small quantity of refined heroin were seized by members of the SMP. Headquarters Narcotic Office late yesterday afternoon in a raid made Jon 1274 Bubbling Well Road, near Ferry Road. The raid was ied by Detective Sub-Insp. Alex Rhind, and the seizure was one of the largest made in Shanghai this year. The place where the drugs were found, a [garage, was believed to have been a distributing centre. for narcotics brought in from the Eastern district, it was estimated that it had been operating, under a cloak' of the Jdsenest "secrecy, for two or three The detectives spent several hours lon the premises and it took them considerable time to open three safes, jin the garage, which contained the [contraband as well as a large amount fof money. "In the course of their visit they arrested an accountant and clerk working inthe place and Jchauffeur who. arrived while they were searching for drugs, The value of the opium seized was set at about $10,000. The heroin—some fiveleighths of an ounce—would sell at about $60.
The man wanted for conducting the drug-distributing centre is named Wang Hai-sai (or Wang Hal-shan) and is said also to be sought by the French Police. With the assistance of the French Police, the Settlement detectives visited Wang's supposed biging-place, in a house off Avenue Foch, on the French Concession side, but found that the bird had flown,
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