CHINESE DEN
POLICE FORCE AN ENTRY"
(By '.Telegraph.—Press Association.) CIfEISTCHURCH, This Day. Using as batons a lump of concrete and a largo piece of wood, a party of constables forced their way into a, houso in Allen street last night, and arrested four Chinese. It is understood that evidence of opium-smoking was found. On. their arrival .tho police found that the house was strongly barricaded. Two of Iho constables climbed up and broke an upstairs window, got inside, aud opened the back door. Tho doors inside the houso were strongly bolted, and some of them blocked with sheets !of iron.
As a sequel to- the raid AH Wing, the occupier of the house, was lined. £100, in default three months' imprisonment, for permitting opium-smok-ing oil his 'premises,-*. .
Three other Chinese were. fined £20 each and costs for being found on, the premises. ; ! , "It came as a surprise to the polico to find that a place in Christchurch. should be so heavily barricaded," said Senior-Sergeant Fox. The accused, who were described as laundrymen, pleaded guilty. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 11
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174CHINESE DEN Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 11
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