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Show SMUGGLERS' PLOT IS FRUSTRATED j ! Lone Motorcycle Policeman j Overtakes Fast Automobile j and Captures Chinese. j MILE - A - MINUTE RACE ' I ! Syndicate Scheme to Bring in Large Number of Orientals Orien-tals Defeated. Los Angeles, March 14. By overtaking over-taking a fast automobile and captur- j ing eighteen Chinese and two mem- ! bers of an alleged smuggling syndi- J cate, a lone motorcycle policeman at Los Angeles harbor, San Pedro, frus- ! trated early today a plot to smug- gle Into this country a large party of Orientals, under the very prows of a j revenue cutter and other government j vessels. Four more contraband immigrants im-migrants were caught after daylight but ten 1 Chinese and the smuggler ! launch which brought them, probably 1 from Lower California, escaped out to sea. j i John Wicklund. the policeman, saw j the Chinese landed from tlie launch ! and gave chase when he witnessed J some of them enter an automobile. ' fu He overtook the motor car in a mile- f -a-mlnute race for tho city and arrest- j 3 ; ed John Culver and Richard Freeman. 1 alleged members or employes of the smuggler syndicate, and Edward Ma- son, the chauffeur, who is expecte'l to reveal today to federal immlgra- I tion authorities further information ' ' i concerning the operations of tin band. ? The noise of the chase awakened , ! harbor residents. The alarm also ; was given the crew of the harbor j flreboat All joined the pursuit aud at daylight there were twenty-two Chinese in jail, with Freeman anil Culver. Mason was not kept in prls- ; on, but was under surveillance uut'l immigration officers -could question him. . A . The Chinese who were arrested ! said more than thirty Orientals were ; aboard the launch. Uuluth, .Minn., March 14. An, organized organ-ized gang of Chinese opium smugglers smug-glers arc menacing bpr'der patrols ac- j cording lo immigration officials in j Duluth, who were today warned to keep constant watch for them. The arrest of a Chinese at Internationa! Falls and his subsequent questioning by authorities revealed the existence , of the conspirators. It is said. He will be taken to San Francisco tomorrow for deportation. It is the plan of the gang, as outlined by the prisoner, to go to a point near Fort Frances and then ferry Chinese ini- j migrants across the river at night ; j Cities all along the border hav j been notified to watch for the appearance ap-pearance of Orientals and to look for ; opium. |