The Archive · 1941

Book Pirate Sentenced

Shanghai, Dec. 24.

A. Chinese printer "was sentenced to six months' imprisonment yesterday by. the First. Special District Court charged with book pirating. Another printer charged with aiding and abetting the crime was found not gullly. Accused was found guilty of having pirated the "Acme, Commercial and Phrase Code" printed by the Business Equipment Corporation, an American firm in Kiangse Road. About 200 copies of the pirated books were found by. the police in the possession of accused who sold them at much lower prices and caused printers of original copies to suffer heavy losses,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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