Peking, Jan. 1
One spectator was killed and 17 were injured when anti-opium officials mistook a tin of gun powder for a tin of opium and threw it on a bon-fre at Tsinan, Shantung province, recently. The gun powder exploded, resulting in the serious accident, The bon-fire was held as a public event to celebrate the confiscation at.
'Tsinan during the past fow months of 1,545 opium pipes, 1,011 packages of heroin, 94 packages of opium, 479 packages' of other narcotics 120 sets of gambling paraphernalia.
All of the drugs and gambling apparatus were thrown into the fire and it is not known how the gun powder became mixed up with the opium, although some suspect. that a drug dealer put it in for spite—United Press,
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