The Archive · 1939

Opium Dealers Sentenced

Shanghai, Feb. 17, Prison terms ranging from six months to five years were meted out yesterday by the First Special District Court to eighteen opium dealers in whose possession the police found $20,000 worth of opium. "They were Founded up three weeks ago in two separate raids made in the Grand Hotel and the Chun Wai Bank Building in Avenue Edward VII. The ringleader of the gang is still at large. Three of the men were each niven five years in Sail and fined

years each,

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