A 1925 Opium Raid in Shanghai
Posted: June 20th, 2012 | No Comments »Came across this silent newsreel from Kinograms: The Visual News of all the World. It’s from 1925 and includes footage of the Shanghai Municipal Police and the Shanghai Chinese police busting some opium den and then displaying the seized opium before burning it in special kilns.
Shanghai Police march out of the barracks to go bust an opium den…
Seized bundles of dope…
And into the kiln it goes to be burnt and destroyed…
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