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THE CHINA ~~MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1957.
HE WOODEN DOLLS OF DEATH
THE
Others you have to search overy timo-you just wouldn't dare
The doll was wooden. Its going to make absolutely narcotia agency. The parcel of face was a Chinese carica-.certain you would have to reiðin was in a waterproof fure. #t looked like
miss them. spend a week on the job and wrapping.. Attached to it was a puppet, its jointe were just about strip the ship of line. Inside the salt was a largo lump of mit on a length wired, Arms, legs and head Of course, you' 'can't do small marker buoy, Both were moved. They were cheap it."
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thrown over the ship's side on toys lacquered α bright orange, and perhaps the only surprise was that any- one would bother to sond crator of such unattractive dolls overseas.
It was a big order lying in a Hongkong godown awaiting shipment. The Police were told they were doped.
They raided the godown, burst open the cases
but there was nothing to be found but the wooden dolla
in their paper packing.
The tipster had been em- phatic and so the dolls were
carefully scrutinised,
On some
Seizure of Morphine Blocks
be
"Another of our troubles. La that processors have developed their output to much a high de- gree that with modern com- pression methods they can make · up eight-ounce cakes in such a way that they take up the same spaco
as one ounce of loose powder.
Information
and Diligent Searching
"Normally, we make seizures on information but two or three have been the result of diligent searching. Raw oplum which comprises most of the imports comes in one kito bags and raw morphine in half-pound blocks.
"If there is a large quantity Involved it is sometimes dropped overboard in waterproof con- tainers or wrappings either walling sampans or junks,
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"Sometimes, we find the drugs This on the actual carriers. carrying business seems to al- tract all sorts of people and there seems to be no bar to race, creed or colour.
Legs solid; arme - solid; body --- solid-looking
occasions Revenue its run into harbour. The salt anyway. Some were strip- ofors have put their hands dooolved and the marker buoy
10 the surface ped und broken. Still on drugs as soon as they've bobbed to nothing found
and boarded the ship. On one occa- plaked up Inter by junk, sempan, slon it was literally like that, or speedboat employed by the then a sharp-eyed One officer put his hand down shore agent. searcher noticed
ventilator and fell two ropes Fighting trafficking of this that there were ed to brackets down the kind is hopeless. It would need in dolls with blue chart, He pulled on them and
a bag of opium ankle bangles and up came others with yellow bangles.
-Robin Hutcheon writes"
Police and Revenue Officers speak of their Kork "almost apologetically" because, with present control methods practised in the world's growing areas, in Siam, Burma, and the lawless. Middle East, to do more than make the dope trade dangerous for the traffickers is as fanciful as the pipe's own dream..."not worth serious consideration."
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So far they'd only examined the dolls with yellow banglos. So then they examined the other kind.
The Faequer was scraped off the body and back and gradual- ly a rectangular outline appeared in the back
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more scruping and It became a trap- door. . more scraping and the hatch cover was removed. ., and there was the heroin inside in packets -in every other blue-bangled doll.
This was a prize catch for the drug hunters. They ad- mit it was unusual but nowhere near the most com- !plicated hiding place they'd
uncovered.
It becomes difficult when a ship arrives in port from a likely export centre and information there is about heroin or opium cargo to go on.
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no
"Sometimes you just know there's something on board," said a veteran Re- venue officer, "but if you're
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each,
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Finds like this are rare, The majority would tax the in- genuity of the keenest sicuth. Some that I was told I was
not to asked
publish--they
# form might encourage expect that could only be traced virtually dismantling un entire ship, rivet by rlyet,
by
of
"And heaven knows, our Jeb is hard enough now," sald a Revenue officer.
Difficult Detection
But here Bro a few cases which Illustrate the dimculty of detection.
One parcel of morphine was
found in the hawser drum of a
derrick, winch. and was only traced after virtually the whole cylinder had been unreeled,
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It is worthwhile recalling why Revenue officers and Police 10 such lengths 10 out even the smallest parcel of dope: as many as 200.000 smokers can cked out of a pound of heroin, of the grade smoked in Hong- kong.
be
and
a staff of hundreds who would have to trail every ship entering port
track everything thrown overboard. The rock of salt and the bag of heroin could be in a car of rubbish, could perhaps be spewed out of a drain vent.
"You are likely to find drugs on becan-going vessels of 5,000 tons and over," the fevenue Officer said, "and believe me, searching a ship can be more difficult than searching a block of data.
of Indian Hemp. All are listed majority, it la one known door as dangerous drugs. There are out of despondency and hope-
loanças,
"One passenger we picked up some exemptions and these are a plane with K load of chiefly where the content of the drug is so small that it is not kely to lead to addiction, such as recognised medicinal pre- parations.
Dope cache on board a ship
All penalties are at the dis- cretion of the judge. The Magistracy cannot sentence to more than 12 months in prison, the District Court to no more
titans five years and the Supreme Court to no more than 10 years.
in
The choice of the court which any particular Cisc 19 heard is therefore
determined
Considering
this dispassion- ately or even on moral grounds, there is no reason why the addict deserves any more sym- pathy than the trafficker sinco one constaNES Importa.
what the other
But the truism that is offered ́almost' apologetically by overy- one concerned is that we could only stop it coming in we could stamp it out". It is mald apologetically because the under present hypothesis is, control methode practised in the world's growing Bread, "not
either by the Police in their in- worth serious consideration, vestigations or by the Magistrate at the initial hearing where An Impossible Task application is made after the charge has been laid to have the cise transferred to a higher court.
The Police and Revenue officers
claim good resulta. Without knowing the total ex- tent of importa it is difficult to Generally smoking and minor discuss the relative success of peddling cases are dealt with in their operations. What can be oplum in a fake bottom in his the Magistracy, but bigger said la that large seizures 0:0 suitcase was a Moslem.
peddling and trafficking cares made and apparently more are heard in the District Court ophum has been seized in the They'll go to any lengths to with exceptionally serious ones first three months of this year get their cargo in and they use in the Supreme Court,
than in the comparable period the tricks possible. It is
last year. This may mean more with
vigilant searching, greater ex- carried in canvas bella pockets, folse heels and even Sympathy for the Addict
perience in detection or just Brussleres."
better luck.
of At
I found amongst most of the It is the traffickers that the offelals I interviewed a genuine But the truth stands-that if .. authorities are after rather than sympathy for the addict. It is the traie could somehow bo the smokers, a senior Prisons based on the knowledge that eliminated the problem official told me,
whatever was the first cause of addiction would disappear. his drug-taking. addiction is the moment, Government is The courts have Imposed something almost beyond human thinking in terms of tackling stiffer penalties in the last two control I
тереп A "All tanks, stores, hatches,
years and Police believe this is statement made cartier
doctor's addiction without being able to In this eliminate ether the major or, ventilation shafts are suspect acting as a deterrent,
series, that after one good dose indeed, any of the subsidiary but they are fairly ordinary
only a man with a very strong causes of it. Sentences rise sharply from will can resist the craving an hiding places and you generally
it cause. And that traffickers know their about two months for smoking, induces. Obviously virtually all way around ships a little beiter to $10,000 and 12 months in those who take it have one than to dump valuable loads in
prison or $50,000 and 10 years common characteristica com- obvious places,
in prison for porscasion or plete lack of resistance. manufacture of dangerous drugs.
On another occasion Revenue officers uncovered a large cargo of opium under an enclosed stairway on a ship which they finally tracked down by remo?- ing a railing and its mounting at the back of a bench, in adjoining cabin.
By doing so they found other screws which held a plate giv- ing access to the cache.
"Some shipping Ines assist us Much more difficult was the a great deal by sealing all tanks method of concealing heroin and hatches and other spots sent in by a neighbouring where packages could be hidden.
CHINA'S
are not
children being
For the majority it is sheer No distinction
is made be- excipiam; for the majority it is tween oplum, morphine, heroin, begin in ignoropes of its cocaine or extracts or tinctures, destructive potentialities; for the
ir buns
no other
Tomorrow's article loads naturally to the prisons where heroin is being fought with the utmost determina- tion by a handful of doctors. (Copyright Strictly Rosarved)
CHILDREN
In Shanghai, the authorities used to be able to rely on the between eight and ten hours and even longer at school. After the two-shift system was introduced, children could count on half a day, ten hours, out of school. According
impressed
reprinted from the BIRMINGHAM POST
work.
What are the remedies put forward for what is admitted to be a serious situation? Hero-as elsewhere in the Communist world-the. sterility of thinking on social problems is clear. Re- primands are issued all round and parents and teachers alike to increase ther ideological education which was dropped only a short while agó. to Factories are being asked stick to the eight-hour working day rule, so that parents may time with their spend more children.
FOLLOWING the Soviet model, Chinese Communists are keeping a close eye on their rising generations almost from the moment they are born. In the factories, for instance, creches have been set up for the benefit of working mothers. There is no altruism in this, for nurseries have a political as well as a practical purpose, The mothers are reminded that their benefits can be to the Peking People's Daily, young people is not being well when the parents are away at are bing told $ 9.50
obtained only from the Communist State, while the this freedons led to their wan- directed." 18.00 State itself has control-through an indoctrinated staff dering about the streets, Oght-, 18.00-of the-developing child for a far greater period than ing, stealing and running dway In Shanghai a police spokes- 25.00 do the infants' own, parents.
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In one Peking school children criticism. The children at a mitted that his pay is too low, community strengthened so that Shans brought forth the com- That was the situation Inst were rude to teachers, read primary school AL Peking an is the very status of the childner gut sullable reading 5.00 ment: from the Communist spring.. Since then there has books and made jokes in class, Road West, Shanghai, it profession.
o been a relaxation of the pres- and stayed away from PT. youth paper last May. that be busy alx days of a week is sura. A lessening in internation- 4.50 not enough-one has to be trusy, al tension has meant that much In another Peking girls' 1.00 and even busier on Sundays," of the political indoctrination school. Mack
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The teacher is also expected on to look after the moral side of the children's life, although ho
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material Schools should oc reported, "hape not been above putting wastepaper baskets over instance, local Communist Party
In the country districts, for gan student gelf-study groups another Communist method of the doors ready for the unwary edes last sulum to tener ensuring, political supervision, contective teacher!"
ers in dome areas to get out into Having taken the control of the delds and sink wells.
At the same time, the authori the children away from their
ties responsible for school parents in the past, the Com- According to the Kwangming building tre told to tho to the two-shitt system. In At the same time, "diger- munist authorities are appealing Datly, the safe-keeping of food- vigorous antion; to remody the schools--as เพลง adoptext In ence to current affairs and to parents to zastano this res grain, the marketing of goods acute shortage of space and pe- Soviet Russla a number of years politics vocra common among sponsibility again, Hoge en- and the delivery of mail, have lieve the overcrowding. "The three-day, spring holl-
students. In some classes, col- Vironment is very important, the bocomo the routine, duties of day arrived after much longing
lective resolutions were adopted authorities are now saying re teachers, Clausthave frequent But all those solutions like and waiting. Put, alas! the
All this means that since po- neither to read nor subscribe to provingly, but parents have not ly been suspended, the suspen the problems-are old Exhorta- party, the Government, the litical supervision has been re- wwpapers,"
roalled the part they ought to alon sometimes lastingr trede KATLOT
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play in educating their children, months.. If a teacher dared to cut before, with no significant leaque ferund vise notification children are spending more time" According to a brondenat over The two-shift school system my this promoted confusion si robuk. Once upon a time, the and summons after another for outside they chroom and the Peking radio, the increase in allows more time for home life the expense of teaching the Chinor child was the peripet SOUTH CHINA Morning POST, LTD. the convocation of matings cad. devil flats some mischied still comes of juvenile delinquency in and home education thus be would be criticised and evan example of "obedience: It sou
conferences. Some Heldly
ton Reports:
Various large and motium-aloră alties is cornes more important. KOWLOON ordered that all shati particip- Chinese cities make interesting va clear indication that the out
punished, Punishment, in that Commundet frredours: E Umikotunesely, the children number of cases, has meant, dalind where, the part butocracy al' and others mtidig stated - reading.
of-school life of children, and are out of school at the fuse down grading og framster.
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