SMUGGLING IN CHINA
MAINLY JAPANESE GOODS
UNPRECEDENTED SCALE!
SHANGHAI, October IS,
Smuggling on an unprecedented scalt is rampant in North China" owing to the strained Sino-Japanese situation.
•Vast smuggling organisations, oper> ating from Darien and other centres outside the Great W v all, are literally; pouring goods into China through tho passes. The largest percentage of the. smuggled goods are of Japanese origin, ■which arfi easily landed since tho for-f-.iblo seizure of tho former Ghinosu Customs organisation in Manchuria.
The scheme'involves little more than' changing the labels on goods, giving semblance that they are European or American good?, which are finding ready markets in Tientsin, Hankow} jShaugaßi^aJul .other cities.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 96, 20 October 1933, Page 9
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109SMUGGLING IN CHINA Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 96, 20 October 1933, Page 9
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