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27th November, 1925.
OPIUM SMUGGLING TO NEW YORK.
LARGE SEIZURE BY CUSTOMS.
(From our own Correspondent).
NEW YORK, Nov. 24th.
Customs agents seized 443 tins of opium on board
the Prince Line steamship Eastern Prince on her arrival
here yesterday from the Far East. The drug, which is
valued at nearly £50,000 at illicit dealers' prices,
was concealed behind the panelling of the refrigerator
room.
The tins were marked with the name of a Chinese
merchant in Macao, and bore a notice in Chinese that the
person to thom they were delivered must first be
identified.
The officers and crew denied all knowledge
of the opium, but the chief steward, an Englishman, and
a Chinese cook who alone had the keys to the refrigerator
room, were detained by the Federal authorities for further
examination.
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