Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-23 | Page 9 | Japan Acts to Curb Poison Liquor Sales

Japan Acts to Curb Poison oison Liquor Sales Safes 0 TOKIO Jan 22 AP-A AP campaign cam cam- campaign against and In Japan whose product product prod prod- sometimes has fatal tatal effects has been started by the metropolitan police bureau of Toldo Tokio The Tho report of the municIpal health section discloses discloses dis- dis closes that two sixty persons died from drinking poisonous alcohol In the Japanese capital last year While there is no prohibition In Japan there is a duty of percent per percent cent on all imported whiskies and other liquors The duty with the retail profits added brings drinking costs here within the neighborhood of the price of illegal megal I wet goods In America Consequently Consequent Consequent- ly the Japanese and bootlegger The authorities state that almost every popular foreign brand of Scotch rye and gin Is Imitated In Japan Many of the bogus brands are deadly poison owing to the ignorance ignorance ig- ig norance of the native imitators as to the difference between grain andwood and andwood wood alcohol Few foreigners have become victims of the deadly concoctions concoctions con con- because they patronize the high highest class bars and retail liquor I dealers Much of the illicit liquor I finds Its way to the cheap bars and tea houses and the Japanese are the I sufferers