Nine men and three women, suspected of having been involved in the manufacturing of imitation cigarettes using the labels of the Yee Tsoong Tobacco Company, were brought before the First Special Court yesterday on a writ of detention. Their arrest, which was effected at 131 Hankow Road on DT has brought up the number of total arrests in connection with the case to In the possession of the new prisoner the police found 100,000 illegally-manufactured cigarettes, it was revealed in court. Last week. an imitation cigarette manufacturing factory in Wuting Road was raided and there the police arrested a number of men and seized a quantity of fake cigarettes.
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