repeated orders for the Won of the lunar calendar, Chinese printing companies stilt find it a Profitable business to flood the market with calendars or blocks, some of them bearing lunar dates' only and some bearing both Gregorian and lunar dates. As a result, the Public Safely Bureau authorities, with the sistance of the Settlement police, conducted a series of raids in the Settlement and seized no less than 33,000 lunar calendars. Eight thousand of these were found in 10 Vu Shing Lee Alleyway, off Haining Road, 15,000 copies, in 15 Kyung Tseu Li, Kinchow Road, and the remaining 10,000 copies in the Zyng Kwel Kyi Printing Works, 41-43 Lo Juing Faung, off Tonquin Road.
Applications were made on Thursday'by the S. M. Police in the First Special District Court for the disposal of the 33,000 seized calendars. The Court. ordered the seized copies to be detained temporarily by the Police, and ordered that the pro-Prietots of the printing companies Which had produced these calendars be summoned before the court for Investigation.
The first "Special District Court on Saturday ordered the confiscation of 10,000 calendar blocks seized in 3 Chinese printing works.
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