ORIENTAL DUPLICITY
TIN RAZOR BLADES Rampant smuggling in North China is causing some surprising results on markets farther to the south, comments the Shanghai correspondent of the ‘ Christian Science Monitor.’ Not only are prices being brought down to some degree by the influx of goods paying no Customs duty, but a counterfeiting “ racket ” has been disclosed. One of the best-known makes of foreign imported razor blades has been offered on the Shanghai wholesale max--ket at exceptionally low prices on the whispered assurance that the blades had paid no duty. Purchasers offered the packages to their customers, only to receive a heavy back-fire when patrons brought in odd bits of tin, not able to cut even soft cheese, which had been placed in genuine packages. The Ministry of Railways is latest complainant against the smugglers, saying that Koreans and Japanese smugglers ride on the trains south from Tientsin, carrying their smuggled goods as luggage, and refusing to pay even ordinary train fares. They also have broken windows, damaged upholstery, annoyed fellow passengers, and in one case overloaded two cars to such ?.u extent that they broke down. »
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Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 11
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186ORIENTAL DUPLICITY Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 11
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