The Archive · 1938

Cigarette Plant Raided

Shanghai, Apr. 13.

Large quantities of cigarettes with counterfeit brands and cigarette making materials were seized by the Settlement Police on Monday in a raid ona house at 102 Wenchow Road, Two Chinese, Ts Noyh-san snd Yeu Ting-kwel, arrested there, were remanded by ihe First Special District Court yesterday to next week for further investigation, One. sack containing empty "Pirate" brand packets, one sack containing tobacco. Twenty' packets of cigarettes, {wo packets of cigarette paper, one packet of "Pirate" labels, one zinc packet form, one box of tin foil, two packets of gold powder, two tins of Ink, and our blocks for rolling cigarettes were among the articles seized by the police.

Apr. 14.

Continuing their raids on Chinese cigarette plants, Settlement Police found at No. 127, sai Woo alley, off Teepoo Road, a quantity of cigarettes bearing counterfeit brands. Three persons, including a woman, arrested inside the plant on April 12, were remanded until next April 20. by. the First Special District Court. Among the "articles seized were one and a half rolls of cigarette paper, a box of silver powder, six metal packet devices, twa, wooden rams, 20 amply "Pirate"

"kets, two dies, four packets of irate" elgareties, one box contain ing 600 cigarettes with counterfeit "Pirate" brand, a bist cigarette-making machine, an electric motor, wooden trays, one bart of tobacco and seventeen cardboard boxes each con-

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