The Chinose opium smuggler is notoriously audacious in his methods of getting the drug landed. Surely tho most daring instance, says the "Morning Post," is tliat occurring some time ago in a Japanese steamer, bound' from Hongkong to San I'rancisco. Shortly before she sailed one ot her officers, passing oi>o of the heavy hawsers, had his attention taken by ttie gJmt of metal where the big line made n sharp bond over a stanchion. Examining turthor, ho was surprised to find that tho hawser was of twisted bamboo, not bost Manila and steel wire. Then his knive brought to light a long slender cyhnder full of opium, and another, and another. The hawser, substituted by smugglers among the crew, was woven about hundreds of similar well-charged metal cylinders, one after another from the ends. The price of the opium in San I'rancisco would have fetched a good sized fortune to the smugglers.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 10
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