Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-09 | Page 25 | Buyers Not Anxious for Confiscated Opium

oo BUYERS NOT ANXIOUS FOR CONFISCATED OPIUM MANILA. P. I . Jan. 8. Approximately Approxi-mately 1000 pounds of confiscated opium op-ium was sent by the bureau of supply of the Philippine islands, to tho chief of th bureau of Insular affairs at Washington for sale In the United States more than a year ago, has just been returned here. Several months after the opium reached the United States, the chief of the bureau of Insular affairs sent tho following cablegram to tho governor gov-ernor general. "The pharmaceutical manufacturers manufactur-ers here do not make any offer for the purchase of the nineteen cases of opium. There La an abundant shipment ship-ment of Turkish opium In Now York City with a more uniform amount of morphine. It Is believed that the shipment ship-ment will be a complete loss." In view of this cablegram the opium opi-um was ordered returned to Manila, where It Is now being held by the bureau bu-reau of supply. The publication of an article by an afternoon vernacular newspaper that the opium had been abstracted from tho cans during the round-trip across the Pacific and molasses substituted, brought forth a denial from the bureau bu-reau of supply. It wa-s asserted that the cans ltad been opened by secret service agents and all of tho drug had been found Intact. Tho value of the opium confiscated during the last year and now In e hands of th bureau of supply l said to amount to several fcOBOred thOUB-and thOUB-and dollars.