GROG RACKET
CHINESE “ HOOCH " GANGS MARINES CLEAN UP IN WEEK (Rec. 10.15 a.m.) SINGAPORE, October 21. Fifty British Marines, working under the Naval Provost Marshal, Major F. Little, cleaned uip the grog racket in a week Raiding parties, working day and night, broke up Chinese “ hooch ” gangs. Although there had been 22 deaths and two cases of blindness from alcoholism when the round-up began, not a single case lias been reported since.
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Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 5
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