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Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 4

The Chinese opium smuggler is notoriously audacious in his methods of getting’ th» drug landed. Surely the most daring instance, says the ‘ Morning rest,’ is that occurring some time ago in a Japanese steamer bound from Hongkong to San Francisco. Shortlv before she sailed on© of her officers, passing on© of the heavy hawsers, had his attention taken by the glint of metal where the big line mad© a sharp bend over ft stanchion.’ Examining further, ho was surprised to find that the hawser was of twisted bamboo, nob best Manila and steel wire. Then his knife brought to light a long, slender cylinder full of opium, and another, and another. The hawser, substituted by smugglers among the crow, was woven about hundreds of similar wellcharged metal cylinder's, one after another from” the ends. Tiro price of th© opium in San Francisco would have fetched a goodsized fortune to the smugglers.

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