Naming his deceased father as ringleader of the huge opium ring which supplied smugglers aboard the U.S. Transport Chaumont with tins of the drug for distribution in San Francisco, Tsung Pau-yeu, who had been arrested the previous night by Detective Sub-Inspector A. Rhind, denied that he was the head of the organization when he faced the First Special District Court yesterday.
He told Judge Siao that although he knew three men who were serving prison terms for complicity. in the. smuggling case which followed the arrest of two sailors from the Chou mont, Andrew Horvarth and Robert Pinson, he was in no way concerned in the traffic of the drug. His father Tsung Yung-chieh, who died on' 8 in Shanghai, said accused, we. leader who supplied the opium for disposal in America by the Ame can sailors.
Tsung, who had been sought by the police "since June, was formally charged with the sale of opium for purpose of export to the United State the charge being brought by T. T. Tsang, municipal advocate.
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