DRUG SMUGGLERS UNMASKED.

Shannon News, 26 July 1929, Page 2

DRUG SMUGGLERS UNMASKED.

CHINESE CONSUL’S WIFE IN PERIL. (Sun Special). NEW YORK, July 18.Packed Avith the £2oo,oooworth of opium found in 14 trunks belonging to Mrs Ying Kao, Avife of the Chinese Vice-Consul, on her arrival from Shanghai on Monday, Avere scores of letters, Avhich, Avlien translated to-day, laid bare wliat the Federal authorities declare to be the greatest narcotic smuggling plot ever cA'olA-ed. Many high Chinese officials in Shanghai, and American residents in Honolulu are implicated. Upon the advice of his American lawyers, Mrs Kao’s husband has resigned the Vice-Consulate in San Francisco.

“If I toll Avdio is involved, I shall be killed,” moaned Mrs Kao,.and the Chinese authorities here assert, that, in any event, death Avill be the fate of the Avoman if she is convicted of smuggling and is deported to China.

AFGHAN 'MINISTER’S SIDE-LINE

(Published in the “Daily Mail,”

LONDON, Wednesday. Coristernation reigns in the French Foreign Office, and also in the diplomatic corps, says the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” foJloAying the discoA-ery that four Avooden cases from Germany claimed by Sirdar Nabi Khan. A close friend of ex-King Amanullah—he Avas formerly the Afghan linister at Paris and. is now Minister at McscoAA r —contained £6OOO woith of heroin and cocaine.

The cases were labelled, “Secondhand clothing,” and Avere claimed us part of the “diplomatic valise.” One fell off a lorry while they Avere being taken to the Embassy, revealing ; a white poAA r der Avliich was. analysed as .heroin.