Approximately 880 delegates to the urd International Eucharistic Con~ gress In Manila were in Shanghai on Feb. 12 on the way to their homes all over the world, arriving in the s. Conte Rosso, the s. Empress' of Fussia ahd the inv, Tatsula Mar.
'The "highest dignitary pass through Shanghai to or from the Congress was Denis Cardinal Doug. herly," Archbishop of Philadelphia, who' was the Papal Legale the Manila Congress. "He came into port the Tatsuta Maru' and wa welcomed "by a hest of for twenty minutes. You could have heard a pin drop, he added, for there was not even the ery of a child. Others in the Papal suite slated that missionary work had received big impetus and that there "had. been many. conversions even. before the Congress began, The Cardinal will "return to San Francisco in the Tatsuta Maru and thence continue. directly to Philadelphia, A large' dinner was held in his honour at Aurora University, Ecclesias-of many nationalities were present og well as lay believers of the Mexico City, Feb, 12, launce Eghlse, suspected of com. pilelty in the smuggling, of narcotic Gruge, was, In critical condition here from' a. self-inflated. stab " wound, Police said that he had attempted sulelde while in gaol-on charges of faction. in behalf of a narcotic. ring with headquarters in. Los.. Angeles, Havana and Shanghai, Dossiers. of the' police department revealed documents of the Foreign 'OMe, the League of Nations and United 'Customs uthofltles Inking Eghise with the.drug-smuggling gang which attempted to send: a: shipment of heroin from. China'. to Central 'America' through Miss Maria Wendt of, Shanghai.
'The case took a sensational: tum late to-day when Eghise's wife published a telegram which she had Sent to the Mexican President, Gen, Lazaro' Cardenas, in which she revealed that she had. been offered an opportunity "to obtain.a revocation of the order for her husband's der portation to the United States, The Offer demanded that she pay 40,000 petos for the revocation, the telegram asserted, Eghise was transferred to. the British hospital where "his condition was said to ye, Special agents surrounded his bed.
Police believed that they had suc. ceeded In uprooting the Mexican end fof the ring which In 10935 landed 400 Kllograms of heroin at Vera Cruz, 'The smuggled drugs: were valued at US. $1,000,000, Detectives. believed that Anton Paul' Wirthmueller, a German,:°and Jose Buchwald, an' Argentinian, were connected with the gang; both have Tighlie has hod prominent connec tons In Mexico, having: married the daughter of a. political Tender, Cal. Xavier Ordonez. He was. ostensibly a Jewellery, buyer—United Press,
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