Discovery of Ingenious Method by the Tientsin Police Tientsin, Sept. 11.
Elaborate plant for the purpose of extracting heroin from what, to all appearance, was a form.ot floor polish was discovered yesterday' morning in a private and, apparently, empty house in the British Concession.
There was an alarm of fire but the fire brigade, upon answering the call, found the fire extinguished, Their suspicions, however, were aroused and the police examined the house in which the most elaborate appliances were found.
It appears that heroin had been shipped from France in paste form and had passed the Customs as floor Polish which it closely resembled.
The machine for extracting the narcotic from the polish, with] several thousand dollars worth of heroin, were confiscated.
'The' police have arrested a Russian Jew named Brinberg she attempted to enter the house, think. ing that the police searchers had departed.—Reuter.
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