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crease the anxiety with which these discussions are being: watched.
Drugs And Japan
The drug problem in China, which has been under considera- tion by the Opium Committee of the League of Nations, is simple but terrible. Partly for financial reasons, but still more as a valu- able weapon against the Chinese people, the Japanese encourage the manufacture and distribution of drugs in those parts of China which they control. The Japan- ese policy is more than simple who work at checking the illicit failure to co-operate with those
traffic in drugs, and more than a failure to continue the penal and educative measures which the Nanking Government had adopt- ed to reduce drug-taking; it is, as the Chinese delegate at Geneva, Dr. Hoo, remarked, a policy which aims at "the systematic poison- ing of the Chinese people" China has become the source of almost the whole illicit white drug tra-
Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 21, 1939. ffic, and it is the Japanese-con-
THE "MARE'S NEST"
trolled areas north of the Great Wall and directly south of it where the poppy, which produces opium and heroin, is grown. Iran
For sheer lack of candour, to and Turkey, which are the only give it no harsher name, the Gov-other countries to grow the opium ernment's answers about the sur-poppy on a large scale, find Japan render to Germany of Czech gold their best customer, but drug- in London would take some beat taking has been stamped out ing. First the Prime Minister It is for the Chinese, and to a among the Japanese themselves. denied the story as a "mare's
certain extent foreign nations, nest" and suggested that it was
particularly the Americans that entirely groundless. Then the
Such Financial Secretary to the Trea- this trade is carried on. sury prevaricated and pretended conditions in the more recently evidence as has been obtained of ignorance. After three days' badgering the Chancellor of the conquered areas of China goes to confirm the worst fears of those Exchequer comes out with a re- who have seen the results latively full story which makes Japan's annexation of Manchuria.. of nonsense of the protestations of Drugs are more or less openly his colleagues. He now admits
sold in the large cities. The that he did not like the idea that the Bank of England should sur- defensible weapon with which to- Japanese could find no more in- render to the Bank for Interna-
carry on an indefensible war. tional Settlements gold belonging
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unreal in the present circum-spouting torrents of puddled stances to talk of the issue as politics from his mouth.” A very one between a bank and its cus- dangerous fellow in any totali tomers in the ordinary way of tarian country. Farther back it business. But at any rate we was one of Lord Keeper Guil- have the assurance that the Gov-ford's profound discoveries under ernment did not like the transac-Charles II that "his lordship up- tion and wanted to stop it. on the main thought that retail- Curiously, the Government did ing of coffee might be an inno not hear of the affair from the cent trade; but as it was used to Governor of the Bank of Eng-nourish sedition, spread Lies, land, who sits on the board of scandalise great men, and the like: the Bank for International Settle-it might also be a common nui- ments and is presumed to repre-sance."
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sent British interests on it, but Clarendon, as might have been: "indirectly from a Continental expected, was very much of the source." That, apparently, is same mind, for in 1666 he had part of the price we pay for the proposed to the King either anomalous constitution of our totally to suppress coffee-h ses central bank. It could hardly or to employ some spies /ho, happen in the case of any other. being present in the conversation, Although Mr. Chamberlain sug- might be ready to charge and gested the contrary, we now accuse the persons who had talk- have it admitted that discussions ed with most licence in a subject are going on with the Germans that would bear a complaint.” about the disposal of those Czech The King, Clarendon says, "liked assets in London that we have both expedients"; presumably it been able to block. The incident was the second which was adopt- of the "mare's nest" will not de- ed. -