GOODS SMUGGLED

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1933, Page 5

GOODS SMUGGLED

ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE

ACROSS JAP BORDER TO CHINA

United Press Association— By Electa*Telegraph—Copyright.)

SHANGHAI, October 18

Smugging on an unprecedented scale is i;ampant in North China, owning to the strained Sin,Q-Japanese situation. Vast , smuggling organisations are operating from Darien and other centres outside the Great Wall. They literally are pouring goods into China through passes. The largest percentage of the goods is of Japanese origin which are easily landed, since forcible seizure of the former Chinese Customs in Manchuria. The scheme involves little more than changing the labels and tlie goods giving scmblanee of heavy European, and American goods, which are finding ready markets in Tientsin, Hankow, Shanghai and other cities.

WOMAN’S SUICIDE IN N. YORK

NEW YORK, Oetobe- 18,

Scores of school children watched as Mrs Emanuel Osterman, the invalid wife of Mr Osterman, president of a firm of cordial manufacturers, deliberate for five minutes on a window sillat her flat, and thou jump down eleven storeys to her death in a concrete court below.

The cries of the horrified chi'dveil who crowded the windows of the school, which faces the court were heard a block away.

A physician said that the woman had suffered from .suiricl-d mania'. Slir had eluded her maid as they had prepared for a walk, locking herself in the bathroom, wherefrom she jumped.