SMUGGLING OF CHINESE
ENTRY INTO AUSTRALIA While discounting the statement that there is a branch of an international organisation in Sydney for smuggling Chinese into the country, the Consulgeneral in Australia for China, Dr Chen, declares that there are many unscrupulous sections working to that end. “These people,” Dr Chen says, “are gamblers, opium smugglers, and loafers, who have never settled down to a trade in Australia, and_ are ready at the slightest opportunity to take advantage of official laxity, purely for what they can make out of it. “ Mainly through smuggling, these persons establish a connection with the crews of vessels, arrange for them to circularise poor, ignorant people in China, and divide with them the results of the enterprise. The Chinese Government is concerned about such attempts to prey on the poor, and would be far more harsh on the conspirators than even the Australian Government.” The question was raised over the report that an international organisation for the smuggling of Chinese and drugs had a branch in Sydney.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21538, 9 January 1932, Page 10
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