Shanghai, Mar. 29.
Two Chinese boys in their early teens who were charged with smug-ling opium into the Settlement were 'The leader of the gang Li Chung-kao, was sentenced to five years' im-Prisonment and deprived of this civil Tights for five years. Charged with aiding and abetting in the sale of opium, Lo Yi-shin and Hu. Wen-teh drew one year each. Li Shih-ching received ah eight-month prison term charged with possessing opium. Several thousand' dollars worth of opium has been confiscated by the court.
The crime was recently discovered quila accidentally by the police when a motor car in which some of the accused were driving was stopped for a search near Weihaiwei Road. A large quantity of the drug was found inside the ear and a raid made later enabled the officers to find more contraband all cleverly hidden in Chinese medicine packages mailed 10 Shanghai from Yunnan. The accused had been engaged in the opium smuggling business for a tong time by maintaining close connection with accomplices in Yunnan.
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