THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1938
Opium Cargo To Nippon Army Enough To Kill 480 Million
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With three wounds in his arms and thigh, a senior of Tungwen College, the Japanese institution in Shanghai, trudged 20 kilometres through mud and rain to safety in Tsingpu, the "Shanghai Nippo" reported.
Disclosures made at the Geneva Government" and the local "Taa.m., yesterday morning via R.M.A. meeting of the League of Nations Tao" regime to establish an opium "Daedalus.” Opium] Advisory Committee which | monopoly in this city. Thus far, charged Japan with fostering despite repeated attempts, the narcotic traffic in China are being Nanking and' "Ta-Tao" officials
The student, Mr. Tatsuo Tsumaki, closely watched by local groups have failed in putting their scheme morphine to the United States, was a member of a party of five Canada, England and other coun-members of the Japanese Army's which are responsible for the
tries. suppression of the use and export The reason for this failure, it
Pacification unit at Tsingpu which A report from San Francisco re-was ambushed by Chinese guerillas of drug.
was said, is due to the lack of first- stated that they hand knowledge on the part of the vealed that more than US $1,000,-
000 worth of contraband narcotics, out of Tsingpu, on Thursday.
near Paihaokangchen, 20 kilometres have received reliable information | monopoly sponsors of the local during the past several months opium trade. Attempts to persuade smuggled to the United States from
Mr. Tsumaki, accompanied by Mr.. which indicates that some 460,000 | Chinese opium hongs to sell the the Far East, had been seized by
Ken Seto, another Tungwen senior, the federal narcotic agents during pounds of Iranian opium had been { imported drug have thus far met
As a result of these joined the pacification unit to in- consigned to the Japanese Army, in with failure. On the other hand, the past year.
vestigate economic. conditions. China recently. This was brought|the "Ta-Tao"
seizures, the prices for illegal
had jumped to several While visiting the Paihdokangchen to the attention of the Geneva sufficiently familiar with the local narcotica
Thursday, they meeting by Mr. Stuart J. Füller, opium organisation to establish times their former value. Opium, area on foot on Assistant Chief of the Far Eastern their own ring of traffickers, trans- formerly selling at US $80 per five- were suddenly fired at from ambush. Division of the United States State porters and other henchman.
tael tin, is now being offered at Mr. Tsumaki, wounded, jumped four Department, who spoke before the
US $260 per can, while morphine into a near by creek. His parley.
prices have increased from US $50 companions, unable to locate him to US $160 per ounce.
because of the darkness, returned to Tsingpu.
IRANIAN OPIUM. SHUNNED
officials
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POWERS INTERESTED The drug situation here is being closely watched by representatives It was explained here that Chin+] of foreign governments who are The drives on the Pacific coast; ese addicts as a rule will not smoke apprehensive over the fact that the which formed one phase of the After walking 20 kilometres in Iranian opium, but prefer China- spread of the narcotic traffic here world campaign, was started 22 spite of his bleeding wounds, Mr. grown opium of Yunnan and would
scale ex- months ago under a new setup of Tsumaki returned to Taingpu lead to a large
Friday. Szechwan. However, the consign-portation of opium, heroin, and the Treasury Department. ment allegedly imported to China by the Japanese Army is high in morphine content. Local sources believe that the imported opium would eventually be refined into morphine and heroin which would then be sold in small quantities to the addicts.
The 460,000 pounds of drug brought to this country is believed to be the largest consignment ever to be shipped to this country. This 460,000-pound shipment is equival- ent to 3,220,000,000 grains of opium.
ENOUGH TO KILL ALL CHINESE Ordinarily, refiners can extract about 10 per cent. of morphine from each grain of opium. This would mean that the 3,220,000,000 grains of opium can be turned into 322,000,000 grains of morphine.
It is explained that one-third of a grain of morphine is a medicinal dose while two-thirds of a grain of the same drug is a lethal dose. Computing on this basis, the Iranian consignment *is. thus enough to kill practically 483,000,- 000 or approximately the entire Chinese nation.
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Mr. Fuller told the Geneva meeting that information reaching him indicates that the sale and de- livery of opium in Central China will be made under the supervision of the Japanese army: He further stated that 650 kilograms of heroin had been exported to the United States from the Japanese Con- cession in Tientsin.
PUSHES POOTUŃG SALES Investigators here revealed that the sale of opium in Pootung is being pushed by a specially creat- ed monopoly which is being operat- ed by the Japanese-sponsored "Ta- Tao" regime. They also claimed that a large amount of opium is now stored across the river ready for distribution here as soon as a drug-trafficking organisation has been perfected by the "Ta-Tao" officials.
Information reaching here by foreign sources from · Nanking. alleges that opium is being sold openly in the former Chinese capital. The drug, as well as its various forms of derivatives, it was said, can be bought in a similar manner as rice or vegetables.
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