SLEEPING MEN ARRESTED
OPIUM IN BRITISH SHIP. NEW YORK, March 10. More than £50,000 worth of smoking .opium was seized and seven men were arrested by Customs agents who went aboard the British cargo boat Taybank here yesterday. The ship recently arrived from the Far East. Mr. Morgenthau, the Secretary of the Treasury, declared that the seizure was one of the most important. ever made in an American port. Immediately after the raid a writ for £lB,OOO was filed against the ship under the law imposing a penalty of £5 against shipowners for every ounce of contraband narcotics found aboard their vessel. Agents went aboard Ihe ship at dawn and seized the wanted men as I hoy slept in their bunks.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1937, Page 4
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