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really belonged to him, and that Tanaka was only looking after them. There was at the time no sufficient justification for detaining Harada, though
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on second thoughts, and after making a careful examina- tion of the available evidence, it might have been useful to have carefully examined him.
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Tanaka had stayed some time ago at the
Tokyo Hotel in Hongkong, leaving finally for Shanghai
it is not known what his business was her then
7.
I enclose a card of a Japanese guide who was probably engaged by Tanaka who apparently knew no French, and very little English.
8.
The time he spent in Europe was very short,
he arrived in Marseilles, probably by s. s. "Kamo Haru, on July 6th, and left per s. s. "Angers" from Marseilles on July 30th. No business papers at all were found in his possession. It therefore appears extremely likely that the sole reason of his journey was to fetch this consignment of heroin.
9.
In his statement, when charged, he said that
a Chinese merchant at Marseilles handed him the trunks and asked him to take them to Shanghai and hand over to a man who would meet the ship. This is extremely unlikely as the tie-on bajage labels affixed in Zurich had the address "Messageries Maritimes Harseilles", and the last lot of two trunks only arrived there just in time to catch the steamer Angers: The person who despatched the goods from Zurich, therefore, intended them to go by the s. s. "Angers", and as Tanaka, vas in Zurich shortly before their despatch it is highly probable that he was responsible for the arrangements. Tanaka himself was booked through to Kobe, and all the trunks were labelled Kobe though they were intended to
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