MAKING OF NARCOTICS ALLEGED
Wife of Australian in Shanghai DISCOVERY BY POLICE IN ATTIC By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.
(Received January 10,1.27 a.mj
Sliangluii, January 9. Sensational features are associated] with the trial of Mrs. Victor Johnson, I wife of an Australian master mariner, 1 who is charged with manufacturing 1 narcotics at her residence in the heart of the most select residential district. The seriousness of the case was stressed by the prosecution, which emphasised that no fewer than 114 Chinese had recently been executed in this area for similar offences under the recently-promulgated narcotic suppression laws.
Although there is no possibility of a similar penalty on the accused an international aspect to the crime has arisen.
The police, it was stated, discovered the plant following the outbreak of a small fire, leading ta the seizure of large quantities of heroin, cocaine and opium and extensive equipment in an elaborately-fitted attic. Mrs. Johnson’s husband is now en route to England to bring out a ship for a Chinese company.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 9
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168MAKING OF NARCOTICS ALLEGED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 9
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