SMUGGLED ARMS
ON STEAMER FOR CHINA
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & JN.Z. Cable Association)
LONDON, Sth Nov. A remarkable story of arms smuggling is narrated in the "Daily Express.”
The captain of the steamship Glenogle, carrying a crew of 47 Chinese, sailing between Antwerp, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai with general cargo, received a note from a stranger just on leaving Antwerp saying that 250 automatics and 5000 rounds of ammunition were hidden on the ship. A secret search by officers revealed it to be correct. The arms and ammunition, in small packets., were hidden in the oil tanks.
The officers, after a conference, decided to throw them overboard and reported the matter to the police. f . Undoubtedly it was intended to take the ammunition to China.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 November 1927, Page 5
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