¿AIL, JANUARY 9, 1939.
DRIVE
AGAINST
as held in Shanghai in Europe holding a license to manu- out of its recommenda- facture and trade in drugs was the basis for the first able, through defects in its coun-
Opium Convention, drawn up at The Hague try's system of control, to export
later.
under misleading or false descrip- tions three tons of heroin and one ton of morphine,
se Convention was hard- efore the World War which precluded for the That represented 23 million the extension of interna- "shots" of heroin and 7 million eration in combating "shots" of morphine. The quan il. By the end of the tity of heroin necessary
to supply narcotic habit had not the medical needs of the entire a more serious menace world for one year is authoritatively ed States and Canada, estimated at only one ton! also acquired a strong Europe and Asia, even ere before it had been
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As a result of this and other dis- closures, fresh impetus was given to the international drive for drug Hague Convention was control. The control exercised by most complete instru- Governments in Central and Wes- ch international agree-
tern Europe became much more have been secured in strict even before 1933, when the not take many years to
Narcotics Limitation Convention that its provisions became effective. ficiently wide, definite, Briefly, the drug treaties provide
Though many na-that neither raw opium nor putting their houses in leaves, nor their derivatives, may hadequacy of the Con-move from one country to another e it possible for firms without governmental permission to in enormous illicit traf-import and to export in the case of ic drugs without con- each shipment. The quantities of e law.
marcotic drugs which may be manu- t, the subsequent Con-
factured in any one year are limited 1925 and 1931, which to the amounts necessary for medi-
scope and embodied
cal and scientific purposes te and more
only. specific Under the treaties, the lawful dis- international control,tribution of raw material and manu- up and ratified. The factured drugs must be submitted 3 which brought this to rigid supervision and accounting.
ituted a situation 30 leave the world aghast to which men would go d for gold.
Throughout the world the lawful manufacture of cocaine and opium derivatives has been brought to the point where it is now closely limited to medical and scientific needs, so that there are no longer surpluses le, during 1927 and from recognized factories available
of 1928, one firm into feed the illicit traffic.
NG DESCRIPTIONS
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110 Saloon does over
a recent R.A.C. Official
0 miles of public roads, ben did 43.4 m.p.g.
Independent Springing, aken, Controlled Syn- many other fine car
VAUXHALL
Allow us to demonstrate the 10 and 12. h.p.
HONG KONG HOTEL
GARAGE Stubbs Rd,
Tel. 27778-9.
ETERNAL VIGILANCE
As a result, the traffic is being forced to find its sources of supply in clandestine laboratories, in the diversion from lawful channels of drugs lawfully manufactured, and in promiscuous dispensing by phy- sicians who are willing to prosti- tute their high profession for gain and administer or prescribe narco- tic drugs for the sole purpose of satisfying
catering to drug addiction.
or
The struggle against the illicit traffic is one in which eternal vigi-
lance is the price of peace. No sooner is the evil 'suppressed in one place than it springs up in another, More and more it is being realized that no country can sit back com- placently and feel assured that its people will not some day wake up to find themselves the victims of a deadly vice.
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Many a Government official has been known to raise the objection that the narcotic problem does not really exist for his country because, he says, addiction is unknown there. And He means "unrecognized." even if addiction is unknown, his country may still be a source of illicit traffic poisoning the rest of the world. The ideal conditions which illicit traffic seeks are in- adequate laws, indifferent public opinion, and a belief on the part of responsible officials that so long as the home country is not threatened, it does not matter what effect its export trade has on people at the other side of the world.
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
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· HOUSEHOLD COAL
Prices per metric ton delivered, as follows:-
Peak District
$30.00
Bowen Road & Lower Levels
$28.00
Kowloon
$27.00
Repulse Bay
$31.00
:
Pokfulum
Shek-O & Stanley
$30.00 $31.00 €
Clients are hereby informed that deliveries of Household Coal can only be made if cheque or cash for the supply is sent with the order.
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Agents.
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