SMUGGLING DRUGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1004, 21 June 1930, Page 12

SMUGGLING DRUGS

MANY LINERS SEARCHED AGENTS BUSY AT NEW YORK Bxtraordinary scenes attended fi> e arrival at New York, recetly, o£ the French Transatlantic Company’* liner France, which came in escorted by two Customs harbour patrolb® Bl ' They had met her outside and P® 100 special agents of the Treatuh Department on the board. At the pier was a crowd of relatives and friends of the passenger?, but they w-ere not allowed inside tbbarrier, although furnished w"* passes. Even guests of the cofflja®’ officials were excluded. It seems the French <^over ?'tG had learned, or so they informs* • line, that German narcotics Ta * ae Ll £600,000 had been smuggled acrw; the frontier, and were believed to on the France, then on the New York. The company seatJfT inteligence to AVashington hj' Every nook aud cranny of the sMj were searched, as also every the passengers’ luggage, but no - cotics of any description were *°“ * It is now supposed that the ra 3 - mind of the ring had circulated false information in the hope *• the authorities would conc y. l }rJL their efforts on the France, v*** drugs were smuggled aboard s 1 other liner. The agents at on £f j cided to search 21 of the hig. ; atlantic liners which arrived ia - ' : York Harbour the following if* . The widespread ramification* the ring first came to light durn« grand jury investigation, at j Duncan Orr Lewis, the well-Eo _ : British yachtsman, testified. Sir . can stated that on his trip aboara Majestic. He found an '> BfsnU^ | trunk bearing his nune among luggage. Thinking ‘.hat som ® j take must have been made, be i the trunk in care of Custom' fleers when he arrived in New • The Customs officers testifi® j,,l I a few days later a man S' lV! f,p, i name of Charles Wimmer cat the Government warehouse. claimed the trunk, saying was Sir Duncans agent. was arrested, and the trunk jj. Inside were found packages CO ing drugs worth £26,000. ;-' r ’ , can said he never before h<’ a ”‘J Wimmer. Cu tom- : .'Ke®'S tnat they have n«.- discover** - the p, p„.j„. 1 , in- which “JV a... Up ; . I. i aited