OPIUM IN LUGGAGE
HIGH OFFICIALS IMPLICATED. ;;.r :• ■’ i SAN FRANCISCO, July 10. Packed with the £200,000 worth of opium found in. 14 trunks belonging to Mrs Ying Kao, wife of the Chinese Vice Consul, on her arrival from Shanghai on Monday, were scores of letters, which, when translated to-day, laid bare what the Federal authorities declare to be the greatest narcotic smuggling plot ever evolved. Many high Chinese officials in Shanghai, and American residents in Honolulu are implicated. Upon the advice of his American lawyers, Mrs Kao’s husband lias resigned the Vice-Consulate in San Francisco. “If. I tell who is involved I shall he killed,” moaned Mrs Kao, and the Chinese authorities here assert that in any event, death will be the Ifate of the woman if she is convicted of smuggling and is deported to China. ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1929, Page 1
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