The Archive · 1940

Smuggling Charges

Charged with Currency — Offences in Nagasaki

An Indian and his Russian wife Were arrested on charges of smuggling yen from Shanghai by the Nagasaki Water Police and customs officers on May 20 at the New Nagasaki Hotel where they had registered after arriving at Nagasaki from Shanghai on the same day, it was announced on Tuesday after the Nagasaki Prefectural Police had referred the case to the procurator's office, according to the morning edition of the "Tairiku Shimpo" yesterday, Two other Indians were "also arrested on the following day when they arrived at Nagasaki from Kobe on board the Empress of Russia and visited the New Nagasaki Hotel, the paper reported, Investigation of the three Indians revealed that they had been smuggling into Japan, Japanese currency bought in Shanghai, They usually bought Japanese goods and disposed of them in Shanghdi, and thus cleared more than Y30,000,000 profit according to the daily.

According to the "Tairiku" they had established their headquarters at the Cathay Hotel, Shanghai. When they were arrested, the sum of Y194,000 bought in Shanghai by the sale of rupees was found in several trunks e bottoms, the paper on Strike At Baikal Road Depot Asking for an increase in wages and rice allowance, some three hundred skilled workers of the. Shanghai Electric Construction Ca. went on} strike at the Baikal Road Depot at 10.15 a.m, yesterday.

Police were detailed to the Depot, but the workers gave no trouble and left at 445 p.m.

Negotiations are under way and it is believed that they will resume work this morning.

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