Japanese and Chienmen Cigarettes Two countrymen and a tailor were charged before Magistrate Li and Mr. Blackburn at the Mixed Court on Friday last in connexion with an audaciene forgery in Japan; of seals enclosed in tins of a well known local brand of cigarettes. The cigarettes, known "Chienmen," it was explained by a representative of the manufacturers, are sold with identical seals, which can be exchanged for ten cents by-every purchaser of a tin of " Chienmen " cigarettes.
Mr. F. P. Musso represented the third prisoner.
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