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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1936.

Telegraph" Unearths Big Smuggling Ramp

At Sheung Shui Village

ARMY 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.

Almost the entire coolie population of Sheung Shui is involved in the smuggling racket.

The "Telegraph" Representative visited Sheung Shui at dusk,

This amazing photograph was taken on the Hongkong-Kwangtung border by a "Telegraph" staff photographer. It shows the snugglers, several of whom are armed, camped on the side of a hill that divides the two territories, awaiting the setting, la of darkness before stealing across the border. Another group can be seen on the crest of the hill.

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when the farmers and coolies were abandoning their daily labour to THE "TELEGRAPH" ALSO

participate in the march on Kwangtung.

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 Shuf to Lin Ma Hung, an Isolated British police outpost, is not available, but the "Telegraph" representative abandoned his car at Sheung Shui and followed the smugglers afoot.

In a long, continuous stream, Sheung Shui smugglers nightly carried their heavy burdens to the Hongkong side of the Shum Chun River.

On the other side of the river. in Kwangtung, Chinese customs officers maintained a continuous patrol.

smuggling into Hongkong but preserve law and order.

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Incursions Into Hongkong ter- ritory by Kwangtung marauders are frequent enough to warrant the two isolated British outposts heing heavily barricaded with barbed wire enlanglements, and a guard is kept day and night, It is estimated that smuggling is both the Hongkong and costing Chinese Governments hundreds of thousands of dollars a year,

But, with many miles of frontier to watch, their task was hopeless, į During the one evening in which The smugglers camp on the hill the

"Telegraph" representative re- side, seenre under the protection mained in close proximity to the afforded by the fact that they are í sumarders he witnessed hundreds of in British territory.

waiting of kerasens, sucks of and

flour, until darkness sets in.

sugar, Japanese cement and being carried into Kwangtung.

Then, immediately the guards

pass, they wade across the shallow river, half-a-dozer at a time,

Sometimes, as was apparently the case on Monday, a group encoun- ters

the Chinese customs

officers, but a hasty retreat to British ter- ritory, where they can await a more opportune moment, is usually suf- ficient protection.

OFFICIALS IMPOTENT.

Because they are infringing no British law, the British officials cannot prevent the Amugglers 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.

Bul on the return trip Into Ifonghong a different story in told. Just as they are loaded with goods subject to Customs duties in China so, en route back to Sheung Shui, they are loaded with goods upon which Hongkong duly in payable or the export of which is forbidden by Kwanglung.

One of the smugglers quite openly told the "Telegraph" representative, through an Interpreter, that, upon

salt

One smuggler proudly displayed a scar In his leg. the result of a previous encatater with Chinese Maritime Customs officers..

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.

Jazz

BROADCAST

Piano Recital By

Doreen Ma

TALK BY DR. S. W. T'SO

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength CT 35 metres (845 kilecyclez);

· 12.30-2.15 p.m. European Record- ed Programme,

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Madame Laila returned to Hongkong this week after an ab- Report. 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.

Some of Madamie Laila's 1936 predictions in fact, hear a star- iling resemblance to those she made in 1984.

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that

been the

12.30 p.m. Light Concert Items."

Dan. Local Time and Weather 1.03 p.m. New Light Symphony Orchestra.

Reuter Press, Rugby 1.30 p.m. press, Local: Weather Forecast, Time

1.40 pan. Dance and Variety Items. 2.15 p.m. Close. Down.

and Announcements,

"Ah! Sweet my-

4-7 pm. Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m. European Programme. Ing contemporary, the war was imminent in 1834 has

7 p.. Tunes from the Films. 1937, with postponed untii

Do you remember my first love United States, Germany and song "Queen of

.Gracle Hearts. France thrown in for good mea-Fields; All my life "Laughing Irish .Leslie Hutchinson; For instance, in June, 1944, `a

between Japan and Soviet |

pughty Marietta" There also seems to be a distastery of life.... George Stolt-Wood Russia was "imminent", according mix-up

regarding

President (Piano-Accordeon); "Soft Lights and ing to the results of a trance to Roosevelt's chances of beite Sweet Music-Lost my rhythm, lost which the secress had obligingly elected next week. In 1934, Madame my music. Lost my man.

Dinah fallen shortly beforehand.

Laila fold the Chicago Herald-Ex- Since then.

Madame Laila's aminer that America's first citizen Miller; "The King Steps Out Med- Reginald Foort (Organ); trances have become more

dis was certain of a roof above his head ey

"When Knights were boid"-I'm still ai the White House for 1937-41. turbing, for, according to a morn

dreaming.....Jack Buchanan; "The Apparently President Boosevelt's ascendancy during intervening trances has weakened somewhat, for, according, to a morning contempor- ary's reporter, Madane Laila doesn't think much of his chances in 1030.

SMUGGLERS AND THEIR CONTRABAND. TINS OF KEROSENE

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 Kwangtung, of Chinese wines und liquors dutiable in Hongkong, opium and of cigarettes.

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The Telegraph" representative verified the fact that Pirate cigar- eties are cheaper in Sheung Shul! than In Hongkong proper. It quite apparent that no duty is paid) on these cigarettes.

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In order to defend the Kwang- tung border against invasion from Hongkong. the Chinese Maritime Customs 1103 established several well-staffed stations along the Shum Chun River...

In order to prevent smuggling from Kwangtung lalo Hongkong the Hongkong Government established no permanent establish-

ments.

has

H. K. CUPRA-NICKEL ·

COINS UNPOPULAR

MACAO GAMBLING ESTABLISHMENTS

WON'T HANDLE THEM

Counterfeiters have made Hongkong cupra-nickel ten-cont coins so unpopular in Macao that gambling establishments, there now refuse to accept them on the fan tan tables.

As a result, a small premium is paid on Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V subsidiary colns which were minted| when silver was the foundation for all Hongkong coins,

The cupra-nickel. coins wero feits, Every night a small Imports and

A "Telegraph" investigation Exporta Department motor-bus placed into circulation in Hongkong early this year established that ut the least one million counterfeits were takes a small staff of proventativen November last year when officers to Sheung Shul. From there longkong Government nationalised probably in circulation at one stage. they set out afoot to pairal the bor-silver. der.

BARRICADED OUTPOSTS

Counterfeiters quickly discovered that the new coins presented few

There are only two British police obstacles. outposts facing the Chinese border,

and

As a result Hongkong, Macao and their task is not to prevent Canton were flooded with counter-

Lately there has been a falling off in the apparent number of "dud" coins, Nevertheless, that counter- felters are still active is catablished by the number of cases brought be- fore the Hongkong courts in recent weeks...

The Resident Engineer at Shing Mun Dam proved right, and Madame Laila, wrong, regarding the scer's 1034 prediction 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 Hong- kong's water restrictions in, 1936.-

THIS PROSPERITY

Huzzahs

Modame that greet Laila's prediction that prosperity is around the corner for Hongkong are nittle less rapturous than those that greeted the same pronounce-. ment in 1934.

Still, what are a few years amongst seers. Hongkong Is bound to be prosperous again-some day. In cidentally, December now appears. to be the month in which we will (Continued on Rape 4.)

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Great Ziegfeld-Selection.

7.30 D.in.

Closing Local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange market Report.

7.35 p.m. Orchestre Raymonde. Polonaise Mikinire-(Chopin, arr.

Waller).

Dance of the merry mascots-

(Ketelbey). Electric Girl-Helmburgh,

Holmes).

arr.

From the Studio. 7.45 p.m. An Appeal for the Nethersole Rebuilding Fund.

by

Dr. S. W. T'60 ·

8 p.tn. Local: Time, Weather Re- port and Announcements,

8.03 p.m. Concerto in D minor, Op.61 (Elgar), played by Yehudi Menuhin and the London Symphony Orchestra.

..0.03 p.m.. Concerte. In B minor, Op.61 (Elgar), played by

8.53 p.m. Two Songs by John McCormack (Tenor).

Now sleeps the crimson petal (Quilter).

(Continued on Pago 11.)

POLICE OUTPOST. ON BORDER

Tak-u-Jing, the Hongkong Police outpost on the Kwangtung border.

It is heavily barricaded,

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