BONFIRE OF DRUGS.
£530,000 GOES IN SMOKE. Accompanied by a heavily-armed guard for fear of thieves, Customs officials at Shanghai early one morning recently transported across the river 6621 bof heroin and 6231 b of morphine recently seized from the steamers Col Di Lana and Cracovia for the purpose of burning the consignments. Local Chinese and foreign officials stood for three hours watching the destruction of more than £500,000 worth of drugs. In addition, about £30.000 worth of opium representing seizures from Yangtse River Teasels during the past three months was burned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21258, 12 February 1931, Page 5
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92BONFIRE OF DRUGS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21258, 12 February 1931, Page 5
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