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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 28, 1988
COLONY
HEROIN EVIL
EVIL IN DISCUSSED IN
IN COMMONS Japanese Encouragement In China Alleged
Mr. R. A. Butler Gives Picture Of Situation
London, To-day.
CENTRAL CHINA
-
The Foreign Secretary, had no. definite information beyond the pu- blished Budget figures for 1988 regarding Manchuria, but a report on the drug situation had called for from the British repre- sentative there.
been
Conditions in Central China did The not appear to be so serious.
Nanking "provisional government" had recently promulgated ordin-
SERIOUS FIRE
IN CENTRE
OF PARIS
Paris, To-day.
Lt.-Comm. R. T. H. Fletcher (Labour, Nuneaton)
A dangerous fire broke out last raised matters in the House of Commons yes- terday on the motion for the Christmas adances aimed at controlling the traf-night in the Hotel des Invalides, fic but he was unable to give defin- which contains. the sarcophagus in journment arising from the Report of the Ad-ite information as regards their which lie the remains of Napoleon
likely result.
East.
NO INFORMATION
War.
visory Committee on drugs at Geneva.
Mr. Butler said that, taken to-I, brought from St. Helena in 1840. He reviewed the proceedings there, and asked what gether with the information he gave The fire spread with great was the "vigorous action" being taken by the about the growth of the heroin rapidity and threatened the wing
Hotel des Invalides
in- British Government in accordance with the traffic, there would be seen that of the
there had been distinct increases in habited by the invalids who dis- resolution regarding drug traffic passed at these in various parts of the Fartinguished themselves during the Geneva.
In the Government's view there The firemen's work was great- The resolution, it will be recalled, reiterated that had been an increase in the traf-ly hindered by the intense cold
the situation in China was deteriorating under fic.
which converted the water from the hoses almost instantaneously Japanese influence.
The Foreign Secretary had no into ice. The police Prefect and Lt.-Comm. Fletcher referred to the possession of the Foreign Se- the situation in Hong Kong, where eretary, there was no evidence that information on the attitude of the several members of the Cabinet to proceeded at once to the In- the local Government was unable the increase of the drug traffic in Japanese military authorities to cope with the drug traffic. China was the outcome of any de- the trade in heroin, which appear- valides after learning the news.
ed chiefly to emanate from Tien-Trans-Ocean. There were over 3,000 heroin liberate plan on the part of the dens in Hong Kong, and over 300,- Japanese Government, or aimed at tsin and was often carried on by
Korean camp-followers. 000 opium and heroin pills con- systematic demoralisation sumed there daily, while there were Chinese people. 40,000 opium addicts.
He thought the diagnosis Lt.-Comm. Fletcher mentioned moat correctly fitted into this Russel Pasha's Report and "his tremely grave position allegations in respect of the drug what as follows: traffic in areas under direct and indirect Japanese control."
DRUGS FOLLOW THE FLAG
Lt.-Comm. Fletcher charged that Japan was undoing the League's good work and fostering illicit drug traffic all over the world as an instrument of policy to promote the degradation of the Chinese.
If those charges
were true, he would like to ask the House how far we could call Japan 'a civilised nation.
of
the
the
The Government intended to con- which tinue close examination of
matter in company with other gov- ernments as being preferable to in- dividual action.
ex-
was some-
The matter was then dropped.-
North state-Reuter.
"Reports we receive from China seem to confirm the ments made at the meeting of the Opium Advisory Committee last June.
"In North China, before the Ja- panese occupation in 1937, attempts were being made by the Chinese Central Government to enforce the drastic opium and narcotic law's which they had promulgated in 1935.
“There are indications that they were to some extent being success- ful.
SENTENCED IN
ABSENTIA
Brussels, To-day. · The commercial attache of the Soviet Russian legation in Brus- sels, Abraham Fourevsky, was sen- tenced to three months' and a 360 francs fine for theft in a Brussels department store.
MANCHURIA BORDER FIGHTING DENIED
Shanghai, To-day. Japanese officials here deny that fighting has broken out between Soviet and Japanese troops on the Manchukuo border.
.
The officials, however, admit that thousands of Japanese troops have been ordered to the border. Own Correspondent.
Our
WOUNDED SOLDIER
Yip Yiu-choi was yesterday ad- mitted to the Queen Mary Hospital, in with a bullet wound in his left Sentence
pronounced Was have absence of Fourevsky who cannot leg, received during an action in It be traced by the 'Belgian authori- Chinese territory about four days
ties.-Trans-Ocean.
He had never had a very great
"Since the Japanese occupation of admiration for the British slogan that trade follows the flag, but he this region, these deterrents preferred it to the Japanese slogan to a large extent disappeared.
deterrents disappear is as these that drugs follow the flag.
that the position seems to us to get
Lt.-Comm. Fletcher quoted re- ported facts and figures in the course of a scathing indictment of Japan in connection with drugs.
HEROIN EVIL The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, replying, gave the House information deriv- ed by the Government from various parts of the Far East.
worse.
OPIUM DENS
"In February, over thirty Chin- ese Government ordinances were repealed by the Peiping "provisional government," and in May it announced that the Peiping Tax Administration had decided to allow the opening of 300 opium dens.
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"The "provisional government” has issued certain ordinances for control of the traffic, the effect of which it has not yet been possible lefinitely BETTER Cigarette.
han the ordinary Virginia,
One very serious feature in the was the growth of the traffic growth in the use of heroin, which was far more serious than the use
to estimate." itself a terrible and of opium gripping vice.
After referring to the steps now
British being taken by the
ir.
Japanese authorities
WATCH EFFECT
His Majesty's Government would vhile maintaining its best and watch the effect of the new ordin-haracteristics. mutually ances.
The full
communicating information regard- He was bound to give the House ame is on the package but ing proceedings and movements of the information he possessed, and or brevity's sake - persons known to be engaged in it appeared to His Majesty's Gov- the illicit traffic, Mr. Butler said ernment that since the formal re- that although it might not give an peal of the Chinese Government's immediate solution of a grave pro-ordinances, opium pipes and smok- blem, at least it meant we were, in ing accessories began to be offered closer touch with the representatives openly for sale on stalls and' of Japan, and that thus we will be markets in Peiping. able to illustrate the gravity
attach to the matter.
NO EVIDENCE
we
in
Innumerable drug establishments had been opened until at present there was scarcely a single store
Mr Butler, reviewing the posi-where drugs could not be bought tion, said that from information in openly and indulged in.
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