An indicating that a factory was turning out 5,000 "red pills" a day is alleged to have been made on Tuesday, June 18, following a raid by' French Police, who arrested four Chinese, two of whom were women, llicit traffic in Grugs in Route de Zikawei had been suspected for some time, and detectives of the French force had kept a certain neighbourhood under survelllance. Early yesterday, a raid was made at No. 7 Passage 200 off that Toad, where four arrests were made, and " 12,000 pills and the complete equipment for making them were seized.
Apart from giving their factory's output as 5,000 pills a day, the arrested persons indicated, it is'said, that the Production was disposed of by means of pedlars. from Hankow to Woosung on Wednesday at 520 pin. he noticed some Gark objects in the water which, on approach, turned out to be men waving or struggling beside a larger object continually awash in the halt-gale that was blowing.
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