According to the "Japan Adver-fiser" of August 11, quoting the "Asahi", Mr. Hajime Hoshi, president of the Hoshi Pharmaceutical Company; and two others have bee indicted by the local court Taihoku, Formosa, for their alleged secret sale of some 1,200 boxes of opium to China, each box contain-jing 160 pounds'of the drug.
The alleged opium scandal dates back to the spring of 1922 wher Mr. Hoshi purchased some 2,000 boxes of opium produced in Per and had them put aboard a ship' The drues were taken to San Francisco and then to Yokohama, where some 800 boxes were deliver: el to the Health Bureau of the Home Office as officially ordered.
The other 1.200 boxes of opium were taken to Formosu,—fror: which they were secretly taken and sold to China at several different report. reported that a public court hearing will be held at the local court of Taihoku on August
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