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CASE.

A DAIREN DISCOVERY,

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QUININE MIXED WITH HEROIN.

WILDCAT NARCOTIC PLANT

RAIDED IN U.S.A.

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CORRUPTION IN THE weakened money's traditional char- neter as "the root of all evil," just

SOVIET.

BIG BAND'S THEFTS FROM MOSCOW STATION.

Four manufacturers of bogus.

The Ogpu recently arrested about morphine tablets, which were actu-fifty persons on the charge of be ally composed of quinine and 10 About the time the revolt of in the first wildcat narcotics plant per cent, heroin, who were arrasted General Ma Chari Shan became raided in America were arraigned clear, large quantities of bank before a United States Commission notes were smuggled into Man-er last month in New York and churin, evidently with the object of held in total bail of 382,300.

is, utha rovorse side, they have lowered the value of money as 11. incentive to higher productivity.of Jabour.

The result is that when a Soviet citizen in a responsible post suc cumbs to temptation he is far more likely to misappropriate goods than money. The dishonest man-

tematically robbing the goods ship ager of a co-operative store, who a longing to a band which was ays.

ments stored in the Moscow Kazan few years ago might have abscond- Station (the largest in Russia)ed with the contents of the till, is Thefts from the Kazan Station have to-day far more likely to gave his customers short menure in meat disturbing the money market of The raid was led by Major Joseph been chronic during the last few and butter and cloth, diverting the North Manchuria. The plot was A. Manning, District Supervisor years, and between 1928 and 1931 residue to his own use. discovered in time, but in view of of the United States Bureau of the disquieting situation then pre- Narcoties, on offices in a building about 220 arrests were made in this vailing, the news was suppressed in the neighbourhood of Madison connection, by the authorities. The embargo Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street, The punishment of the principal more apt to assume the form of a

the name of which was withhold members of the hand, who because the owners of the building

mostly employees of the station, will doubtless be severe, especially if, as is not unlikely, the prosecu tion discovers a non-proletarian

has just been lifted, and dispatches now give details of the incident,

It appears that on April 10th, 80 co-operated with the agents in the wooden boxes, each two feet square, arrest. Five hundred ounces of the were landed at Dairen from the bogus morphine valued at $10,000, Chohei-maru, of. the Dairen Kisen were seized Kaisha, coming from Tientsin. As

For six weeks the prisoners had

a. thousand times more severe. Insisting that the prisoners undoubtedly would dee from the vengeance of the swindled addicts, Manning insisted on high bail.

their destination was not specified, swindled narcotics addicts in many local Customs official opened them Eastern cities, selling them tablets and found that they contained which were more powerful than the 4,000,000 ten-yuan notes of the temporarily soothing morphine, but Bank of Heilungkiang. The local which produced a reaction on the Water Police were immediately system communicated with, and a French man, the representative of a Jocal French firm, was examined because his name was mentioned in the bill of lading. This Frenchman deny

Heroin and Quinine, ing all knowledge, these boxes were temporarily kept in a Customs The prisoners W(TG Benjamin warehouse. Ιπ the meantime, Deutsch, also known as "Benny efforts were made to ascertain the tho Wop," of 1085, Nelson Avenus consigner and consignee, but on the Bronx, held in 825,000 bail as account of the defective nature of the alleged lender of the gang; the bill of lading, these efforts were unsuccessful.

each!

When a scandal develops among local Soviet officials somewhere it is

diversion of supplies from State were and co-operative shops than of a direct embezzlement of public funds.

taint in the clase origin of the ac- cused, and develops the thesis that the thefts, represented not more, or dinary criminality, but a counter revolutionary effort to rob the tailors of the Soviet Union for the benefit of the profiteers of the pri

vate market.

The persistence of thefts in the Kazan Station focusses attention on a point of some moral and econo- mio interest. Such corruption na exists in the Soviet Union to-day is almost invariably concerned with strictly material things.

Nathan Brooks, also known ay It is the general testimony of peo- Nigger Nate," of the Centuryple who were acquainted with pre- On April 20 a Frenchman arrived Hotel, 111 West Forty-sixth Street,

war Russia that money bribery has nt. Dairen by train and two days held in bail of 817,500, and Samuel ramensely decreased, if it has not Inter he, together with a Japanese, and Jacob Beneckaon, of 202 Rod altogether died out. Embezzlement visited the Customs warehouse and ney Street, Brooklyn, chemists. of

of funds belonging to trade unions, inspected the boxes and left for an the plant, held in bail of $10,000 co-operatives, and other public unknown place.

organisations certainly scems The Mukden Gendarmerie, which It was said that they mixed the

to be on a smaller scale to-day was duly notified, suspected that heroin into a paste with quinine than it was in the years of these noten had been sent by Gen which was then heated and dried.the Nep, when money was readily eral Chang Hauch Liang with the Then it was sliced in two-inch exchangeable for goods at moderate object of disturbing the money squares, which wore diced with an prices. One almost never hears of market of North Manchurian and electric jigsaw. The tablets were caused the boxes to be taken to placed in small waxed bags deposit Ssupinkai to which they were con- ed in one-ounce tin containers, sigued, in the belief that chances which finally were wrapped in of detection were greater there. cerise tissue paper, necopted by According to a Dempo Tsushin drug addicts as the usual wrapper telegram, the mysterious Frenchman of genuine morphine. who inspected the boxes at Dairen Deutech was said to have.com- came to take delivery of them at pleted a three-year term recently Saupinkai, and was arrested by

on narcoties charge, and Brooks the Manchukuo authorities.

is said to he under indictment also on charges of violating the narcotics

FOUND SHOT.

TRAGEDY OF FORMER MALAYAN DOCTOR,

Dr. William Alfred Taylor, aged 45, a retired member of the Malayan

Medical Service, was found shot

Act.

Manning said that morphine, which formerly brought 10 na ounce from the illicit trade nów sold at $1,000 because of its scar- vity.

SHIPPING MOVEMENT,

dead through the head in a bed- The P. & 0. 8.9, Malwa, left

TSANG FOOK PIANO 100m at his home in High Street, Singapore for this port on the 6th

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Portsmouth on Wednesday, July 8 inst. at noon, with the outward An automatic pistol was by his

side. The discovery was made by English mails, and is due here on his wife when she returned from the 10th inst. at about 10 a.m. shopping Elble called another

doctor who lives near by, but Dr.

8, Des Voeux Road, Central, Taylor died before he could he

(Entrance Ice House Street) Telephone 24448.

PROFESSOR HU SHIH HONOURED.

PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

Berlin, July 29.-The Prussian Academy" of Sciences has appoint

taken to hospital.

City

The inquest was held by Sir Thomas Bramstion, J.P., Coroner, at the Guildhall.

EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Augart 8, 1932. ON LONDON:

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1/21 Credits, 4 monthe PARID: aight

Evidence of identification Was given by Dr. Y., B. Kyle, who said ho had known Dr. Taylor for 20 He was on the Medical yeurs. Register but had not practised privately since his retirement from the Malayan service. Dr. Tayler ON had been depressed lately heing worried about his general health. fo had suffered War injuries and ON tropical neurasthenia. He lost the sight of his right aye in the War and he feared he would lose the sight of the other also.

widow, stated that her husband! Mrs Dora Emmaline Taylor, the

ed today Professor Hu Shih, the retired in 1928. He thought he had famous professor of philosophy at Bright's disease and recently had had teeth extracted, which seemed

Bank Bills, on dawsad 675-

NEW YORK:-- Credits, 4 months' night 615

Bank Bilis, on demand 22} OR BOMBAY:--

Credits, 60 days' night. 239

Telegraphio Transfer ON CALCUTTA:---- -Bank, on demand

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Telegraphio Transler Bank, on demand Or SHANGHAI:**** Peking University. This is the to add to, his depression. She Bank, at sight first time that this extraordinary left him in the house while she Du YoKOEAMA: honour-las--been awarded-to-a vent shopping-ard-he said he was -On-demand riittään 251- Chinese.

going to bed as he had not been On Maxtra-On demand........ 45′′ sleeping well. She returned and ¦ On SingarOTER ; —-

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Dr. Hi Shih, a distinguished found him dead in the spare bed. On demand modem scholar, is particularly well room, his automatic pistol lying O BATAVIA:---On demand. 884 hown in Shanghai. It was in near the body.

ON HALFRONG June, 1928, that he was appointed Dr. C-31. Elliott, who had made On demand ........... President of the China National a post mortem examination, and DE BAIGON: On demand 571 University at Woosung, later going there. was no real

ovidence of ON BANGKOK:— to Perping. He is a member of Bright'a disease.

On demand .............. 143) most of the learned societies in The Coroner said he was satisfied Bovrazione, Bank's Buying thin Far East as well as a Dour that Dr. Taylor committed suicide Bate=1/48 cillor of the Royal Asiatic Society, while of unsound mind."

·BAR SILVER, per of. vers. 178

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