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Show II KJ Trick of Opium Smuggler. , Says tho China Mall: "Many and various aro tho methods resorted to i by Chinese smugglers of opium to get the drug either in or out of Hongkong, but one that was oxposed thoro the l otlier day 'bad tho distinction of being extremely uncommon. Sergt. Garrad has boarded n licensed junk In search of goods that ho suspected to bo on ! board and while waiting for tho Chi-neso Chi-neso to bring them up from the hold went to stroke somo kittens that were in a baskot on deck. To his surprise j he found that the little animals were 1 thickly smeared with a sticky sub-' sub-' stanco. which, on examining more closely, ho found to bo opium. Other kittens on board had also been treated in a similar manner, so that they, wore the means of concealing n fairly fair-ly largo quantity of the drug. Tho owner of tho Junk was convicted."' |