Show t OPIUM fOUND ON BIG LINER MANCHURIA i Fifteen Customs Guards at San Francisco Are Under Arrest SAN AN FRANCISCO Sept 2 Cus Customs toms tome officials enga engaged ed in a search of of the Pacific Mail steamer Ma Manchuria chur a adi di discovered nine fifty tins of f opium haloed at in the fore for peak of the vessel early today and the work of the searchers is still in progress In con con- with the discovery federal officials of Js said aid that a warrant would be issued for the arrest of the tho ships ship's officer of of- fleer ticer in whose department the opium wa wu Tho officials said maid today to to- 2 I day that confessions laying bare the methods of opium smugglers who have operated in San Ban Francisco for months had bad been obtained from three of the 1 fifteen customs guards ards now under arrest arrest ar ar- ar rest charged with conspiracy to evade customs Jaw law and aM it was stated these three would b be sent before the he federal grand nd Jury According to the confessions of tho the three caches for the smuggled led drug wore arranged at piers piera Nos 34 and 42 and after the opium was wa brou brought ht J ashore by guards and secreted in tho the 1 hiding places it was waB conveyed by automobile au an- into Chinatown The gov Sto eminent names A. A J. J Taylor now under un un- un der arrest in Los Loa Angeles in tion with the investigation as the receiving receiving re reo re- re a agent ent and the federal officers officer I who outlined the details of the confessions con con- say that the guards who made them also name Taylor as the receiving I a agent ent Wealthy Chinese Implicated S S Wealthy Chinese across the Pacific a agents who traveled on oriental liners 4 officers of the San Francisco customs I service and Bothers others here were all in p close association in conducting the unlawful unlawful un un- un lawful traffic say federal officers I Warrants char charging n conspiracy to smuggle have been issued for nine I guards besides those already arrested 1 I The investigation has been in progress progress ress for months and was conducted conduct cd by byI i I Harry Tidwell special a agent ent of tho the tre treasury sulY department It is stated that the evidence that has be been n gathered came into the hands of the investigators investigators in esti gators when members of tho rin ring quarreled over the question of raising f. f raisin money for a bond for Max t x Muller who w was s indicted on char charges es of smuggling I opium last July Federal officers say that the usual premium earned by those who smuggled opium ashore shore was 5 a tin and aDd it is stated that instances have come into 11 their knowledge in which as much as i tins tin of ot the Ute dru drug would be carried ashore by one man man I t Since the disclosures concerning th the ring became public the price of opium in In Chinatown has advanced from 45 to 75 a a. tin |