Shanghai, Aug. 25.
'Three Chinese who helped a Japanese to sell. opium. were charged in the First Special District Court by the Chengiu' Road police and sen-fenced to eight months' imprison ment yesterday. "Their Japanese master, a middle-aged architect. liv= ing in'Scolt Road, has been handed over to the Japanese consular authorities together with more than 300 ounces of opium found in his car, 'The sentenced men were arrested together with the Japanese in a motor car in Avenue Edward VI, near Chungking Road on August "23. They were stopped for a search which resulted in the large quantity of the drug' being seized, The three Chi nese, including the-chauffeur and interpreter all employed by the Japanese, were at once taken to the Chengtu Road Police Station.
'It-Was alleged that the Japanese made opium' smuggling his side job and to transport the drug he possess-oda motor car bearing the licence number of 10088. When he and his Chinese accomplices were arrested they were trying to smuggle the drug to a man living in Yangkaloong, near Rue Ratard. Bad luck dogged them, however, as when their car reached Chungking Road they were stopped by a street patrol
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