SMUGGLING OPIUM
CHINESE OFFICIAL’S WIFE. San Francisco, July 11. Packed with the £2-00,000 worth of opium that was found in 14 trunks belonging to Mrs. Ying Kao, wife of the Chinese vice-Consul, on her arrival from Shanghai on Monday, were scores of letters, which, when translated to-day, laid bare what the Federal authorities declare to be the greatest narcotic smuggling plot ever evolved. Many high Chinese officials in Shanghai and American residents in Honolulu are implicated. Upon the advice of his American lawyers, Mrs. Kao’s husband has resigned the vice-Consulate in San Francisco. “If I tell who is involved, I shall be killed,” moaned Mrs. Kao, and the Chinese authorities here assert that, in any event, death will be the fate of the woman if she is convicted of smuggling and is deported to China.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1929, Page 9
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