SMUGGLED ARMS
DESTINED FOR CHINA A TIMELY DISCOVERY (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received Nov. 9, 10 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 8. A remarkable story of arms smuggling is narrated in the Daily Express. The captain of the steamship Glenogle, carrying a crew of 47 Chinese, and sailing between Antwerp, London, Hongkong, and Shanghai, with general cargo, received u note from a stranger just as he was leaving Antwerp, saying that 250 automatics and 5000 rounds of ammunition were hidden on the ship. A secret search by the officers revealed this to be correct. Arms and ammunition in small packets had been hidden in the oil tanks. The officers, after a conference, decided to throw them overboard reported the matter to the police in London. Undoubtedly it was intended to take the ammunition to China.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16492, 9 November 1927, Page 7
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