THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
28, 1936.
Telegraph" Unearths Big Smuggling Ramp
At Sheung Shui Village
ARMY MARCHES
MARCHES INTO KWANGTUNG
ALMOST ENTIRE POPULATION IN BORDER RAIDS NEWSPAPER REPORTER GAINS REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ACTUAL OPERATIONS
By A Staff Reporter
INDISPUTABLE evidence of the existence of a huge smuggling combine in Sheung Shui, a British town- ship in the New Territories, has been brought to light as a result of investigations by a "Telegraph" Staff Repre- sentative.
Following reports yesterday of a brush between Chinese Maritime Customs officials and a gang of men, during which one youth was shot, investigations were car- ried out on the spot by the "Telegraph" representative.
As a result, the activities of an amazing organisa- tion, which has been formed for the sole purpose of carry- ing contraband across the border, has been unearthed.
Practically all of the smuggling takes place from Sheung Shui village, which is only a few miles from Fan. ling.
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Almost the entire coolie population of Sheung Shui is
involved in the smuggling racket.
This amazing photograph was taken on the Hongkong-Kwangtung border by a "Telegraph" staff photographer. It shows the smugglers, several of whom are armed, camped on the side of a hill that divides the two territories, awaiting the setting in of darkness before stenling border. Another group can be seen on the crest of the hill.
across the
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The Telegraph" Representative visited Shenny Shii at dusk. THE TELEGRAPH" ALSO
when the farmers and conlies were abandoning their daily labour to participate in the march on Kwanglung.
During half an hour, more than 500 people, loaded with all forms of contraband, set out the border.
Permission to travel along the border, road from Sheung Shui to Lin Ma Hung, an isolated British police outpost, is not available. but the "Telegraph" representative abundoned his car at Sheung Shui and followed the smugglers afont.
In a long, continuous stream, įsimunding into Hongkong but to Sheung Shui smugglers nightly preserve law and order.
carried their heavy burdens to the Hongkong side of the Shum Chun · River.
On the other side of the river, in Kwangtung. Chinese customs
DOES SOME PREDICTING
Following the world-shaking prophesies of Madame Terfrem Laila, Hongkong can, for the second time in three years, prepare itself for the worst.
Madame Laila returned to Hongkong this week after an ab- sence of the above-mentioned period.
Most of the epoch-making events she had prophesied on her previous visit having failed to materialise, she was nevertheless determined to give Hongkong newspapers the opportunity to be first to announce the history of the future.
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Some of Madame Laila's 1936, ing contemporary, the war
was imminent in 1934 has becn predictions in fact, bear à star-
postponed until 1937, with the tling resemblance to those she
United States, Germany France thrown in for good mea-
made in 1934.
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There also seems to be a disturb-
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Incursions into Hongkong ter- ritory by Kwangtung - marauders are frequent enough to warrant the two isolated British outposts being heavily barricaded with barbed wire entanglements, and a guard is kept day and night. officers maintained continuous ¦ 1 is estimated that smuggling is patrol.
Costing both the
Hongkong
und hundreds of But, with many miles of frantier Chinese Governments
and song-queen of Hearts."....Gracle to watch, their task was hopeless, thousands of dollars a year.
eds; All my life"Laughing Irish During the one evening in which For instance, la Junė, 1934, aj The smugglers camp on the hill the Telegraph" representative, re-
Hutchinson; Leslie "Naughty Marietta”--Ah! Sweet my- und Soviet side, secure under the protection; mained in
between Japan close proximity to the Russia
ing in a new De Luxe Ford. You stery of life.....George Scott-Wood afforded by the fact that they are smuggler's he witnessed hundreds of
was imminent", accord-ing mix-up regarding President (Plano-Accordeon): "Soft Lights and wait this or terus acks, of four,ing to the results-of-a-trance; into-Roosevelt's-changes- of-being---Sweet Music-Lost my” chytium. Jest "British" "törritory, mud
sugar, Japanese cement and safi which the sceress had ebligingly elected next week. In 1934, Madame
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Laila told the Chicago Herald-Er- my music, Lust my man. fallen shortly beforehand.
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....Reginald Foort (Organ); frances have become more
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331 until darkness sets in.
Then, immediately the guards pass, they wade across the shallow river, half-a-dozen at a time.
Sometimes, as was apptirently the ease on Monday, a group encoun- ters the Chinese customs officers, but
hasty retreat to British ter- ritury, where they can await a more opportune moment, is ustndly, suf- Beient protection.
OFFICIALS IMPOTENT
Because they are infringing no Britishi Jaw, the British ofletais cannot prevent the smugglers from crossing the Shum Chun river with their contraband. It is only when they have crossed the river Into Chinese territory that they incur the displeasure of the law and then only the Chinese authorities can take action.
But on the return trip. Into Hongkong a different story told. Just as they are loaded with goods subject to Customs duties in Chius so, en route back to Sheung Shul, they are loaded with goods.upon which Hongkong duty is payable or the export of which is forbidden by Kwangtung.
One of the smugglers quite openly
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carried into Kwanglung. Que smuggler proudly displayed asear in his leg, the result of a previous encounter with Chinese Markime Customs officers.
told the Telegraph" representative, SMUGGLERS AND THEIR CONTRABAND. TINS OF KEROSENE
through an interpreter, that, upon
their return from Kwangtung, they
AND BAGS OF JAPANESE CEMENT COMPRISED. THE BURDENS would bring with them large quan- THE SMUGGLERS PICTURED ABOVE CARRIED INTO KWANGTUNG.
titles of wolfram, the private ex- port of which is forbidden by Kwanglung. of Chinese wines and liquors dutlable in Hongkong, oplum and of cigarettes.
of
The Telegraph" representative verited the fact that Pirate elgar- cites are cheaper in Sheung Shul thon in Hongkong proper. It 1 quite apparent that no duty is paid on these, cigarettes.
In order to defend the Kwang- tung border against Invasion from Hongkong, the Chinese Maritime Customs has established several well-staffed stations' along the Shum Chun River.
In order to prevent smuggling from Kwangtung into Hongkong The Hongkong Government has established no permanent establish-
ments.
H.K. CUPRA-NICKEL COINS UNPOPULAR
MACAO GAMBLING ESTABLISHMENTS
WON'T HANDLE THEM
Counterfeiters have made Hongkong cupra-nickel ten-cent coins so unpopular in Macao that gambling establishments there now refuse to accept them on the fan ten tables.
Edward VII and King George V subsidiary coins which were minted As a result, a small premium is paid on Queen Victoria, King
when silver was the foundation for all Hongkong coins.
Every night a small Imports and The cupra-nickel coins
were telts. A "Telegraph" - Investigation Exports Department. motor-bus placed into circulation in Hongkong early this year established that at takes a small staff of preventative in November last year when the least one million counterfeits were officers to Sheung Shui. From there Hongkong Government nationalised they set out afoot to patrol the bor- der.
BARRICADED OUTPOSTS
silver..
Counterfeiters quickly discovered that the new colùs presented few There are only two British police obstacles. outposts facing the Chinese border, As a result Hongkong, Macao and and their look is not to prevent] Canton were flooded with counter-
probably in circulation at one stage.
Lately there has been a falling off. in the appurent number of "dud" coins. Nevertheless, that counter- tellers are still active is established) by the number of cases brought bc-
The Resident Engineer at Shing Atun Dam proved right. and Madame Laila, wrong, regarding the seer's 1934 preletion that there would be no need for further water restrictions in Hongkong. Although Mr. Gifford Hull hasn't become an occult he predicted with a discreet cough in the same year that Shing Mun Reservoir would end long- kong's water restrictions in 1936,
THIS PROSPERITY
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Still, what are a few years amongst Op.61 (Elgar), played by seers. Hongkong is bound to be prosperous aguin-some day. In-McCormack (Tenor). eldentally, December now appens Now sleeps the erlinson petul- to be the month in which we will (Quilter),
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POLICE OUTPOST ON BORDER
fore the Hongkong, courts in recent Tak-u-ling, the Hongkong Police outpost on the Kwangtung border, weeks.
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