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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929.

WINE SMUGGLING..

MASTER OF SILAUKIWAN

SHOP DISAPPEARS.

Ad extraordinary charge of smuggling into the Colony a largo consignment of wine disguised as native wine that had been duly checked and regulated at a local distillery, was heard before Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg at the Central Police Court ýesterday afternoon.

The defendants were the master and foki of a small trading junk alleged to have been used to bring the spirits Into the Colony, and two other Chinese, who were defended by Mr. Hin-shing Lo and who were described by him as employees of a native wine denler.

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Shanghai, Aug, 12. It is learned that the prelimin. ary discussions between China and Great Britain in regard to the new commercial treaty Sino-British have been suspended temporarily. The Britisir and Chinese delegates were unable to reach an agree- ment. A point was reached where which there was a much heavier it is necessary for the former to refer to London for further, in- duty.

structions.-Reuter.

R. O. S. J. Clark, in evidente. stated that on his arrival at the Tai Yuen shop he examined the four, jars that were left outside the Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmitt shop. Having visited the junk and stated that on Sunday morning, found the 22 jars of spirits of August 4, acting on information wine on board, he returned to received, two Chinese Revenue Of the shop. Confronted with Jars ficers searched the Tai Yuen Wine- and kongs of all varloties, it took shop at Shaukiwan for dutiable him some considerable time before spirits which they were led to bo he discovered that which he was lieve were being smuggled into the looking for four jar tops bearira, aus-green labels similar to the ones shop from a junk. Four picious-looking jars had then just affixed to the seized jars. He en- entered the shop, and four other quired where were the jars to jara were un the point of being which the four recovered tops ho. carried, when they were stopped longed. The fokis said they did by the Revenue Ofeers, and the not know; one of them even pro- Chief Preventative Officer was tele-tended to be sound asleep. phoned to for further instructions.

Discovery on a Junk,

Upon his arrival, C.P.O. Clark mrded a junk, No. 2092 V., in the Saiwanho Anchorage, on board of which re discovered 22 jars of spirits of wines which bore the green duly lubels issued by the Revenue Office. It was noted that the four jars that were stopped in transit had he same green labels, while the identical serial numbers which all of them bore, showed that they had been issued at one time.

Explaining the point further, Mr. Grimmitt said that the green labels had been issued for the native wine termed seung ching, and their appearance on th: Jars would have led one to expect that they contained that class of wino only, and not spirits of wing on

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Poured Down the Drain. However, investigating further, witness at length got into the back yard where he found four jars without tops. Three of them were standing, empty. The fourth was reversed. The deduction to be drawn was that their contents had been ponsed down a drain.

to the Tai Yuen shop.

Mr Hin-shing Lo: You admit my clients are fokis of the Tal Yuen? Yes.

Witness added that as far as that went, he could not survest that they were partners of the shop.

The master of the Tal Yuen had absconded by the time witness ar rived at the shop at least he pre- sumed he had done so from the fact that he was not there, joined with the circumstance that the door of the safe in the shop was left and the receptacle itself open empty.

Defendants Discharged,

Mr. Lo put his clients in the box, from where they made a state. ment that they were acting in the capacity of employers of the shop. and had no guilty'knowledge of the contents of the seized jars.

statement was put forward in a His Worship observed that the

a straightforward way and he be-

ieved it.

Mr. Lo explained that that was the story his clients had all along told the Revenue Officers,

The two men represented by Mr. Lo were then discharged, and the hearing was procured with on it charge of possession of dutinble spirits against the boatmen.

He compared the composition that was used to seal the tops to the jars, found the substance still adhering to the jur necks to be similar to that on the tops, and came to the conclusion that the tops and Jars bad at one time been joined to each other,

After further evid.nce had been Replying to Mr. Grimmitt, wit-heard, his Worship snid, ho, could ness said he had asked the third not convict the two boatmen on the accused, who was the man seen evidence before him. He con- carrying the jars, where he was sequently, discharged them, but taking them to, and the man had granted an order for the confisen- replied that he was carrying them on of the junk.

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