POISONED LIQUOR
SIXTEEN DEATHS IN JAPAN TOKIO, December 29. Sixteen persons died and six became blind through drinking faked “ shochu,” which properly should be made from sweet potatoes and resembles gin. The poison liquor had been made from methyl alcohol, mixed with water, and placed on the market under forged labels by two men, who made it in their own homes.
Several hundred gallons of the . liquor had been made and distributed in the suburbs of Tokio and in neighbouring prefectures. A warning was broadcast over the entire national wireless system that the whole of the liquor manufactured had apt been traced*
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Evening Star, Issue 21619, 15 January 1934, Page 7
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102POISONED LIQUOR Evening Star, Issue 21619, 15 January 1934, Page 7
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