Japanese Sought for Fraud Against Local Public International Settlement and Japanese Consular Police are looking for one elsuo Suzuki, aged 3 Japanese, who is alleged to have Sold a considerable quantity spurious Scotch whiskey. to dealer in the Seltlement and the French Concession. Two proprietary brands are Involved and the Police have con fi seated upwards of a dozen bottles bearing apparently genuine labels but surmounted by false patent capsules, The detectives now are looking for the machine used to put the tops on the bottles, Tt was a Japanese customer whose aching head prompted a report to the Police, Visits were subsequently made to Japanese and Korean provision shops In the Settlement and the the French Concession, where the detoc~ tives found the bad whiskey. The shopkeepers in each instance ex~ plained that the bottles had been sold tu them cheaply by Suzuki as liquor smuggled from Datren, Several seizures of spurious whiskey recent months have occasioned warnings to the public to exerels the utmost care in buying spirits, The Vocal. agents for the distillers con cerned are ce-operating with the authorities to protect the public against fraud, In some instances tea and other non-alcoholic beverages have been found in the bottles.
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