Tokyo, Aug. 30.
The arrest of a Manila Japanese Nagasaki early in August today lec the police to smash a huge ring of money smugglers and halt transactions i which already had involved the sum of. yen 2,500,000, The far fung ring of money smugglers, whose activities spread from Manila to Shizuoka, with centres in Siiinghai and Nagasaki, was crippled with the arrest of 13 suspect. èd members on charges of conspiracy to evade the provisions of the cur redes control act.
Police first arrested Fukuzaburo Fujita, owner of a dry goods store in Manita, in Nagasaki early in August and followed up the information given them to take into custody several Shanghai Japanese.
The police, Japanese quarters said, arrested on suspicion Fujishiro Mizoto, owner of the Heikawkan Hotel on Range Road, Shanghai, Takero Ito of the New Shanghai Hotel; Toshio Fugawa, manager of the Shanghai Hotel and Toshizo Murakami, also of Shanghai.
The police alleged that Mizoto acted as a broker, loaning money to Japanese visitors to Shanghai and also directing by cable Tatsue Hamanaka Japanese woman now in Manila, to purchase yen for smuggling to Japan. The woman was alleged to have smuggled yen 500,000 on one trip.—United Press.
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