Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03

After meeting with a disastrous
series of failures which are declared
| to have made serious inrOadS into the
| funds placed at their disposal, sew
| eral organized bands of smugglerS
from along the China coast are now
! said to have turned their attention
! from the handling of cOntrabanG
: opium TO a more easily marketed
! drug.
| Morphine is commodity that is
! being successfully slowed aboard a
number of trans Pacific liners dur
ing the more or less extended stay
of these vessels at Hongkong.
! With the arrival of the Japanese
| liner Nippon Maru from the coast Of
: Asia this morning, the statement was
! freely made by those in a position to
speak authoritatiyely that few days
before the Nippon Maru sailed from
/ Hongkong for Honolulu and San
Francisco, a bevy of customs officers
at the Chinese port completed raid
On a number of steamers riding at
anchor in the harbOr with the result
! that eighty-two pounds of mOrphia
were discovered by an officer, the
drug having been confiscated.
The contraband had been smuggled
in very cleverly and might quite cas-
/ lily have escaped notice. Notice was
/ sent to the Governor and a reward
of 80 taels given for the discovery
The Customs officers are very alert
and contraband has little or no
chance of evading their vigilance.
Captain Stevens in the Nippon
Maru reported considerable rough
weather on the homeward voyage
; The staunch little white yacht" met
with a succession of strong gales,
though the winds and heavy seas are
said to have done no material dam
age to the liner.
The Nippon Maru was alongside
Alakea wharf before eight o'clock
| this morning This vessel reached
the, port with "a cabin, IA second
class and in the Asiatic steerage
were SO Japanese, Is Chinese and
17S Filipinos
Two hundred and seventy Asiatics
left the vessel at Honolulu. DR.. TrOt-
ter and his staff of medical officers
connected with the Federal quaran-
|
more than passing care it the exam
ination of all liners from the Orient
these days because of the continued
and recurring outbreak of infectious
diseases at China and Japan ports.
| What appears to have been two
distinct and genuine cases of Asiatic
cholera were reported at Yokohama
the day before departure of the Nip
pom Maru for Honolulu. The cases
developed at Nagasaki and kukuOka
Local Federal medical officers have
| been assured that the sanitary officials
at Yokohama and other Japanese ports
visited by liners that make regular
calls at Honolulu. have the situation
we'll in hand.
The discovery of the plague in Jap
aIese waters and aboard japanese
vessels. however, could not help but
cause some little alarm.
Information received from shlpp'N,
officials at Yokohama states that the
vessels on which the cases were found
vii lbe delayed in their schedules
somewhat.
The first information came 10 OH
GERS in the Nippon Mlru from MOn,.
signed by the Governor of Fugnoka. 1t
was stated that the new Nippon Gu-
sen kaisha American Servi"e steam
ship the YOkohama Maru. had an au-
thentic case of cholera on board. ne
) Yokohama Maru arrived at Moi the
25th. In looking over the passenger.
tie Port Physician discovered sUsp>Ii-
Gus symptoms exhibited by a Japan
to ho Src~ h
cl diagnosis proved this case OF
cholera.
Later a message was received saying
that the ship had been sent 10 Qu2ran
tine for thorough disinfectiOn. and
that it would be held at Moi ''"+'i
August %. disarrangpg the sa
schedule for America. The vessel car
RES twenty-five first class passengers
!3& third and a crew Of o.
A message from the Governor Of
Nagasaki says that the Ot1ru Marn
arrived from Shanghai with s!N'''ci-
Gus case on board One of the ships
cooks, il was said, had developed
svmDtome Of cI Olera end upon eX-
animation the physicians felt certain
fhp first diagnosis was correct. The
OtaTu was sent to quarantine AMI VII
he released after Il thorough fun
ton
, The Fiinnoe for Honolulu include
122 men. q women and i children
One Filipino was left behind at YOkO
h""a lnr1usn Of illness
The Nippon Naru made . very hri",
Stay al tits port. departing for San