Tientsin, Feb. 21.
An audacious attempt to raid a Customs godown in the French Concession with the object of recovering goods which had been seized, ws made by a party of Koreans befor dawn this morning, but was foiled by the French police.
Preventive. offers had seized sixteen bales of smuggled piece-goods when they were being transported by highway to the interior under the escort of four Koreans.
The goods were conveyed to the Customs godown at midnight, and, five hours later, forty Koreans armed with clubs and sticks drove up to the place in we motor-trucks, beat up the Customs men on duty, forced the doors and loaded the cargo into a truck.
Meanwhile the French police had been informed, and the truck was stopped in the main street of the French Concession. Six of, the Koreans were captured and handed over to the Japanese police, but the remainder escaped. The goods with which they were trying to make off Were. returned to the "Customs—
'The little city of Nantungchow on the north side of the Yangtze was seething with excitement on Fob. 18) when it "became known' that" 70 persons had been given the death sentence under the drug-suppression regulations promulgated by—the Military Affairs Commission, according to a Chinese report.
The condemned men were arrested.
wide search for drug addicts the authorities, A total of over
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