CARELESS SMUGGLERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 April 1932, Page 12

CARELESS SMUGGLERS

BETRAYED BY THIRST. The existence of an organisation for smuggling immigrants into the United States and elsewhere, with representatives in Bremen and in Hamburg, New York, Philadelphia, and Sydney, Australin, was disclosed at tlie trial in Bremen of two stewards and a dishwasher of the Bremen’s crew, who had stowed four Chinamen aboard that crack liner in a most fantastic manner and only failed to get them ashore at New York because an unobserved get-away proved impossible. Last spring one of two stewards, who is also a bit of a carpenter, rigged up a secret chamber over the ceiling of the Bremen’s library, which he later stocked with bedding and canned food. Late on the night of June 5 while the Bremen was lying at. Bremerhaven, a, boat slipped along, side and four Chinamen were put on board by means of a rope ladder. Each paid £4O for passage. It being impossible to land them at New York, they had to return to Two days out on lhe home journey the smugglers forgot or neglected to supply their freight with drinking water. The Chinese stood it as long as they could, but finally had to shout and bang on the wall, which gave away the enterprise. The three smugglers were sentenced to prison terms of from two to ten months.