Big Seizure of Chinese " Wine"
San Francisco, Aug. 22.
Consignments of Ng-ka-py, a Chinese wine valued by their owners at more than $7,000,000 may be poured into the sewer, Mr S. F. Rutter, federal prohibition director for Calfornia, said
Treasury, he stated, directed him to-day. The Roareieey of. the to seize and destroy under Section 25, Title LI of the National Prohibition Act, all Chinese wines the importers of which had failed to remove them from the country within 90 days after May 12, 1922.
The order, it was said, was a re-classification of Chinese wines as "liquor instead of medicine.'—Reuter.
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