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THE CHINA MAID
· `MAY 6, 1957,
ES HOLD.
TN Hongkong there are three times as many addicted to
heroin as to opium.
IN
The Commissioner of Police, Mr A. C. Maxwell, said, this during the course of an hour-long interview.
"The Police drive against opium has been much more successful because it is easier to detect and suppress whereas it is very difficult to detect heroin smoking," he sold.
This is one of the main factors behind the big switch to heroin in recent years. That, and its price (heroin smokos work out cheaper than opium), uncomplicated methods of smoking-and perhaps its greater potency.
Three doctors | spoke to said a parallel difference between opium and heroin could be found in whisky and mthyl alcohol.
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"That's right," he said. "Heroin addiction is suicide. by instalments.”
I interrupted the first doctor who told me that: thought mathyl alcohol could kill you?"
they were enught with it, it was the death penalty," he said.
The switch from opium to heroin is clearly shown in prison figures which indicate that in 1 don't 1053 of 1,221 addicts in Stanley only 40 were on heroin. In 1958, of 8,829 addicts, 3,903 were on heroin and 3,579 were opium and heroin.
on
How did heroin get such a hold on Hongkong? How did it get hora in the first place?
that
know whether this allegation was ever substantiated or whether it grew out of the Shantung heroin scandal and became widely accepted because the Japanese Army was 10 com- pletely unscrupulous and un- principled.
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Ing adopted by the Chinese
Government.
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"On top of mil this the population keeps grow ing-I think the taking of drugs excitement into brings a little some very dreary lives-it is very much like drinic in the Victorian .
Figures already quoted prove its prevalence among a category of people who can ill afford the The *xpenditure it entails. majority whose addiction leads them ta prison tefl doctors (famous last words) that they never intended to allow it to got such a hold on them.
Many long to be rid of the Curso of the drugi but the
Inside the Heroin Den--
These are genuine - pictures. They show a man with the heroin pipe. A small dish beside him holds more heroin pellets. The other picture shows two heroin, pipes") and the equipment that goes with them. But few addicts use this method....too bulky....too easily detected. Heroin can be stuffed inside a cigarette and ́smoked in public without giving the addict away, (Inset Oplum equip- ment for comparison)
-CHAPTER TWO
cleaning cars and spent $6 a day on heroin. was married with two children.
Ho
I asked if he gave the remaining $6 1 day to his
naid wife. He
по his wife went out to
A cotton work In mill for $80 a month. She earned enough to support the family and so there was no need to worry. But if he had to support the family he would give up his addiction. He said he would cut off his addiction when he had completed his present sentence.
This was his second spell in prison-on a charge of possession of dangerous drugs-and he'd taken heroin with a hypodermie for two years. His intentions may have been sincere
J
BY ROBIN HUTCHEON
By
dominant urge
is to gót more and more and very few addicts have the willpower, to take themselves along to a pubile Hospital for treatment.
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person
Here are some prices:
First, from a wholesalers' vlawpoint: Ten pounds of raw oplum yields approximately one pound of morphine (10,000 unadulterated smokes), or 17% ounces of heroin (about
11,000 unadulterated smokes), Heroin costa at current rates between $104-8300 ounce for various grades. / Amongst other factors de- Ja tho tormining the price popularity of the brand.
At these prices, one. 'un- adultorated smoke of hérola should cost between 30 and 80 cents.
An
but, the prison doctor said "they were about right,"
for {#
This addlet paid $3.20 one fan of Red Chicken brand name) heroin. It ́ia
popular brand but In grandulated form and far from being highly refined.
One fan is one-hundredth of a tal. There are 12 tale to alb, so that prisoner pald about the game as the our rent wholents prion.........Where he loans, of course, lawin the adulteration.
the without
addict effect being aware of the extent of its adulteration. This gives manu- facturers a pretty free hand and
a protty fair profit.
It must be a fair profit "be- cause in the United States prices are said to be” something like six times Hongkong prices and 20 times port of origin' prices und, logically, as the Comila- stoner of Police, Mr A. C. Maxwell says, as this in a world-wide trade it will follow the best market,
but when he is relcasta he goes pain killer but, more danger- back presumably to car clean ously, a "cute for TB". ing, back to the same environ- ment that was responsible for his addiction, back to a wife
Doctors I have spoken to An appreelable number of at- who no longer trusts him, who claim that one strong dose Others I know, who spent the prewor years in North China tempted suicide cases are addicts bas
no longer say heroin Wis primarily who have given up the unequal family and who he is enough to turn all but a
strong-willed rucket struggle of trying to get away respects hit, back to a despair Y money making #1
into an addict. from !!
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that perhaps "önly · drugs can and occupation In during 'It mode
the its appearance
I low of at least two mêm relieve. The doctor could China soon after World War I that Chinese collaborators were
The with the Japanese in in one month, whose casey came have told him: he doesn't stand
incidence of TB in this when Japan was awarded the involved
10 the Social Welfare Office, a chance, former German
province of the trade.
Colony is fairly high. Many whose addiction had driven them Shantung. Men in Hongkong
Sheer One leapt oft But the fact remains that to this extreme.
fortunately are either in proper ignorance and that today who spent the prewar
Chinese
or faith in clinics
are receiving out- and Tientsin heroin smoking flourished during a ferry and was saved and an- curious yeurs in Peiding
leapt recall
off the top of a quackery are other reasons for patient treatment, but I wonder Japanese chemist the Japanese occupation of the other that
in the next article I will China provinces.
Ils spread, Small'stonach pains how many more have fallen for building and was stopped by a shops sold heroin openly and North
tell you something of the or headaches that should have, this monstrous le that heroin newspapеm published understand it was also prevalent protruding railway fence.
methods of smoking heroin Im- In the case of addicts with been treated with doen of will "cure TB". "blacklists" of the shops where in Shanghol before and
Most heroin-possibly Most dependents, wives and children bicarb mediately after the war.
aspirins, have or two
with and some of the problems a known heroin sale was made,
of the people I interviewed are
and driven a staggering generally neglected
number to
Now from the retailers' the exception of Another aspect of the drug
one brand Police.and Revenue officers heroin. Almost
of pink pilla on the other trade is that prices are not, un- wiowpoint. every
market The Japanese Consulate took believed that heroin smoking separation follows,
In Central prison I asked one woman this Colony
have encountered in fight- addict in Laichikok fortunately, prohibitively
has a which
amall very action to close them but the was brought
content Communists swept addiet who took his heroin prison hospital
as her pensive. the
but The poorest gave
which ing dope peddling. I have to rely on figures dope trade persisted usually on the when
what his dally reason for starting one of these appears to be able to get sul-
popular because of ita and refutes from all intravenously fringes of foreign concessions south
dally to And the tout who ficient
salisty his given by a prisoner. They were outside the parts of China sought safety in earnings and expenditure were, two pains.
lucky colour is powerful (Copyright Strictly where they
He said he camed $12 a day peddles it claims it is not only a craving.
cannot be taken as accurate enough to give the desired Jurisdiction of the Police, and Hongkong. the Christian university Before that heroin was vir- hospitals, particularly I believe
tually unknown here. Now at Cheeloo, continued to receive oplum is common to the older cases of heroin addiction.
generation and, largely due to uccessful suppression by the is thought to be dying Police, here out
Heroin and morphine are clearly younger generation's me Заравене troops brough choler, the harsh deadly extreme beroin into North China to
characteristic of the times in control the people. "I don't
which we live, know whether it was Japanese Amy policy or the practice
A penlor Government officiul in Hongkong who was DafüTE "World War 1 told
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One of the main factors behind lew commanders who the spread of heroin is to be anticipated difficulty und found in the economic condi
resistance but unyway the tons of the working class and population of North China was unemployed. riddled with heroin addletien. A senior Social Welfare officer There was also some in South said: "There has been a de-
standard of: fall in the China but not nearly as much. Anite
living because our trade has Japanese fallen off with the imposition of were not the embargo and also because to smoke heroin. If of the changed methods of trad-
"Mind
noldiers allowed
the
you, Licmsteves
Colds
Even the slightest cold
Is to be feared
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JAMES MASON UNMASKS THE KILLER
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WHO is the mysterious Jerry Wilton? The man
diamond necklace witch who went
recovered ... the man who, on his rolzase turned up Elstree Film studios because his aunt's furniture had been sold and was now being used by the props department for the sets ... the man who, according to James Mason, star of the film Island in the Sun. must have murdered Joseph Rapperley, crooked inquiry agent, who had bribed his way into the studio.
But who 18 Wilton?
Is he one of the stare? One of the staff? Or one of the four visitors Joy Raymond, the publicity girl, was taking round the studios at the time of the murder?” Jamta Mason finds the missing necklaca in an ebony rufar-and knows he is at the. end of hia qu'ast,
T
EN minutes later Property Master Jack Ramsay rang Stage One and asked to speak to James Mason. He sounded puzzled. "Funny thing, Mr Mason, you know you were asking about ebony rulers? Someone else was asking about them only a couple of minutes ago. Wanted to know if I had one in stock. I told 'em what I told you. Was that wrong?"
"Of course not. What did he look like?"
"Wasn't a man, fl was woman. Blonde hair and hesitated a bit in talking."
Mason spent the next half- hour in an agony of apprehen- alon, looking sharply at every- body who entered the studio. But nothing happened. The rostrum filled up with people. Michael Rennie came on to the sot, walk- ed over and asked: "What luck with ebony rulers?"
Before Mason could answer Zanuck and Rossen appeared and began to talk about pos!- tioning in the murder scene. Mason's actor's conscience began to operate, and he joined in the
"Oh Jerry, Jerry, I told you It was no good."
JAMES MASON INVESTIGATES
"Why, I don't know, they Alipped off. They're in here somewhere, I guess,"
Mrs Mackintosh looked rather wildly under the rostrum as it they might be among the scaf- folding.
A true to life murdar mystery not in Elstree, The background is the shooting of an actual flim (Talend in the Sun) now awaiting release,
by JULIAN SYMONS
ly, a couple of feet unlucky. His original plan was awny from
The torch directed at
bureau.
him. simple.
Was
"He got a friend in America the to send
across the bote intro-
ducing him as Alvin Melville,
At the moment and 'asking to look round the
:
looking for something urgently, and hiding the body temporarily made sense.
"So I reasoned that it was a
vieilor. Which one? Rapperley's
conversation told me. Remember
trick
me
it went off Mason studios. That's a routine request, what he sold: "The idea dived towards it and nobody would think of thinking you could, His hands found a querying it, superty Depart are you playing, anyway? You He simply intended with that make-up. What part
to burgle ment and obtain the diamond all Interpreted that as meaning necklace in the ruler quietly that he
must have been talking and peacefully.
to somebody working on "Hils bad luck storted when he set, but if you consider
the
the
body, gripped, they fell to the floor, his legs twisted over in a scissor lock. Then this body was mov- ing like on cel's mot Rapperley, who had followed words you'll see that they don't fighting with hands him to Elstree. Rapperley de-, mean anything of the sort. and knees, butting mended a fifty-fifty share of the "Look at any of us. We are with head, slipping necklace, and no doubt also made up, certainly, but nobody twisting to threatened to give away Wilton's would have any. diflicuity about
presence at the studio.
Rapperley's... recognising us. words imply something else. the idea of disguise. And there was only one person in the whole case to whom such words could possibly
apply the bearded and moustached Alvin Melville,
and evade Mason's lock on With
crash, another came lights
The
him
on.
Mason's
the man stopped
grip
struggling and looked up
In
with
t
BAD LUCK
him
"All quiet now, please," called. Gerry O'Hara. "Ready for shoot- Ing. Very quiet now." He press- of the button that closed the studio
doors. Rossen Bold
tions consultant. "Action," the clapper boy called
federate, the lady who threw the over." out "Scene 249, Take 8, and was one of them-an instinctive switch, can't be far away."
sense of anything wrong or out the cameras turned.
of place..
"Hero"she la." The set guard, Mason went
Charlie Hinton, lod forward the his part,
coming up- So now Mason, dimly seelig blonde girl who had spoken to in case he was now in the middle stairs into the room, retual D the face of an electrician era Mason outside the pus
Bellow of the rostrum. and unable to drink from Michael Ronniè, carpenter up on the gantry above, watch the studio door.
were so sure it was a visit
A LAPSE
Mason laughed. #One email
rather engaging "That would have been fatal, smile. He was a burly young so Wilton strangled him. The man, clear-shaven, wearing a he had bad luck with the workman's overalls.
burglary, in the fact that two of
"Sounds simple when you tell "I don't know that man," Joy the three ebony rulers were out It" Michael Rennie' said, "Any
on acts. And his third piece of thing else" Raymond said. "Or de 17"
"I think you do," Mason said, bad luck came today, when he'd "Allow me to
had the thundering audacity not Introduce Jerry -Wilton, young man about York- merely to come here agua
shire, amateur crackman, and self but to bring his wife as I'm very much. afraid killer of well, calling her his cou Joe Rapperley. Take off the That was when I happened to thing. When we were in the and see and recognise him beyond pub Melville engaged me in overalls, dod
add board
are lampe.
Otherwise he and a rather Zaise the
conversation. While we were moustache American accent and you have might have jumped down, got talking he said that Fat and Mr Alvin Melville, public rein the ruler. In the darkness, and Joan here were regular bobby- And his con- walked out after the scene was dazzlers. Now, that's a word you only hear 'in the North of Wherie
the diamonds England I know it, because now?" Joan Collins asked. "Can that's where I come from. But we see them?"
Melville Bald he was' American I'm afraid you can't, They're born and brod, and hath nover hands of Inspector come to England I know
he was lying" before arguing with him, leading up to the are lamps, passed a moment "Do what you like to me,"
you going to the moment where he was in in speaking. Then the blurred Jerry Willon said hurriedly.
Collins BACK TO WORK sulted by Ronnie and attacked face beyond the lights become "But let Ginny go. She only did Pat Owens sald. Now how you up as a private investigator,
know. Wilton was Melville, vivid to him and he shouted: what I told her to do. She's my "Nobody but a visitor, would
a tempting
idea He carried it through with pro-- "Wilton Jerry Wilton. Come wife," ",
have tried to hide, the body" emedially with two regular Joy. Raymond came in, look- fessional competence, yet with down **
"Oh Jerry, Jerry" Now, she Mason said emphatically. That bobby dazzlers as assistant Ing more harassed than usual, only half of his mind on the with tubby little Joe Baker in acting while half tried to work amoes before he leaped. As he told you it was no good
The man on the gantry Bexed was on her knees beside him, "I was the central fact of the case. but too dangerous. I might really
Why should anybody working on he led on to kill somsbody like tow: "I toel like Little Bo-Peep," out the whereabouts of Jerry
set Have done 11? None of Joe Rappericy. If I had the the complained. I've lost hits Wilton: Why had no attempt leaped he shouted something. "No" good be damned Jerry us could establish an alibi, and chance aud
crash and all the Wilton said carefully. It was, we could pick our There was ruter? Were all his ideas, wrong?" lights in the studio went out an audacious idin, and nothing burgling the Property Departo drained the land
it over his should When you are working
In the darkness Bipeon mayed succoed like
• with Mrs Mackintosh emerged a the giaro of a doter and lampe towards the treats, to neved Juke audacity was ment since we are down here - Ladies and gentlemen,
"most" every 'day....... It coulda't regretfully, inform you little guilty from somewhere at concentrated on you, it is dial- Gerry-Offarm's volco" shoutings Ali o'small celébration, after-¦ possibly help: anybody, kegilarly- "James Mason, Private, the back of the,set. "I've just child to see anything beyond or "Over, to thewitchboard wards Mason lifted bir olan on the set to delay, the finding for, I how out of busi
Ak above them. Yet at the mornɑ¦ ̧ Someone's felpped the Break
pagne glans, looked at its bubbles of the body by a few hours.
discussion with vigour. In my Mechanically
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Mackintosh and Mr Malvillo, and I don't know
low:- oh, there you
troen looking-around.”
hun.
been "made to take
the
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"I don't 100 even how why you
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He was was a vinilow, most; shat he went THE END
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