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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1925.
GUARDS TURN PIRATES.
AN EXCITING RIVER CHASE,
MARINE COURT.
SUSPECTED'TRIEE CHARGED WITH LOITERING.
paper money in his hand and when accosted by witness, said he had earned it by carrying baggage. gard to the money which defendant There was no complaint with re- had in his possession, but the master of the vessel had stated. that he had not given permission
for the man to be on board.
At the Marine Court yesterday A report to band from Kongmoon morning, before Lieut. Comindr. G, "Opjum, may have slain he' thousands, bat morphin, will kill of mother sensational river piracy. Hele, Ng Sheung, unemployed, s ten thousands," writes Dr. Gra: The vigting being the low-bont Lee was charged with being on-board ham Aspland, M., secretary of Shing, plying between Kongmoos. Talaraba without permission The International Anti-Opium A, and interior ports At's o'clock on of the officer commanding, Do sociation, of Peking, to a corres the morning of April 11, the Leo fundant pleaded not gulity. pondent of the lunchester Guar
Shing left the interior ports with A Chinese, detective abated. in dian, giving a terrible picture of what is happening in China, where about 20 passengers for Pukkai, evidence that accused was seen to the plum evil, great as it is, is Kongmon, for the purpose of con-be mixing with the passengers on- laka to be feared than the consumpnecting with the Hongkong stramers board the Talambu, which had just ion of morphia and other drugs, Near Sheung Sui How, the guards prrived, in a very suspicious man-, all smuggled in from aboard. The on the towing launch Yung Dang her. He was also observed to have League of Nations certificate sys-auddenly turned pirates, shot the tein, says Dr. Aspland, is having commander and two other officers little ellect in decreasing the in-b troduction of morphia, heroin, and and took control, throwing the other drugs by underground chan-bodies overboard. The towing top nels, and he brings a strong indict. was cut and the launch came along The towboat was ransacked ment. against Japan as being the side. chief offender. He adds: "I want from stem to stern, and about 30 to give publicity to the fact that passengers kidnapped,
In defence, the accused said he not un ounce of morphia from. During the commotion. on board Great Britain or U.S.A. has been the Compradore of the towboat had seen a number of coolies go- The pirates ing on-board and had followed seized in China during 1923-24" jumped overboard
It is mal, of course, news that turned the launch and towboat in the them for the purpose of obtaining the use of these drugs is direction of Ngaimab, and at 2 pm work. Being successful, he was widespread, but the new feature a" commander of a nearby fort or just leaving the ship when the
the of i# that the use
dered the launch and towboat to Chinese detective arrested him. ia almost morphia syringe entirely giving way to the morphia stop. No reply was received, and pill. These pills are simply mor. fire was opened. Suspicion became phia made into pill form with flour, stronger when the launch and tow. their journey The wholesale disposal is in white boat continued, on cotton bags containing 10,000 pills, without taking head of the warning, Several long boata were manned The quantity of morphia in each pill varies. with the price charged, with 20 to 30 soldiers in cách for the Presuming that, each pili contains purpose of giving chase. The pirates, a quarter of a grain of morphia, fearing capture, cut the tow rope then the man who swallows a dozen daily has produced in hty and ninde off in the launch. hody the same effect as the man pursuers continued to chase the who laboriously smoken an ounee lunch, and a running fight ensued. of Chinese, opiuni: Further, the Two revenue patrol "gunboats were ounce of opium costs at least 20 met on the way, and they also join to 30 tinies more than a dozen ed in the chase.
Near Kan King Sn the pirates morphia pills, and among the pour this is a great consideration.", beached the launch and jumped verboard.Then another. Jargo Morphia Eater Hopeless. In short, the pill is gaining inang of pirates came upon the scone and offered battle, hit they were de popularity because it is cheap and fented. The launch and teshent were effective-there being more "kick" than when the drug is injected fakes to Kengmoon, and many of the while the habit can be indulged, terrified passengers were given free
The
Inspector Bond of the Water Police, who was in charge of the was the friend of a man, who had case, stated that the defendant
three months' imprisonment for the previous day been sentenced to larceny from s.s. Fook Sang, and was a witness for the defence in the case.
His Worship, in sentencing the accused to one month's hard labour, said he had no doubt of his guilt.
$3.10, The Singapore money found in his possession, mounting to would be confiscated and the pro- ceeds, after exchange" into Hong- kong currency, credited to the Revenue.
Tai Lee, others being sent back to Two passengers and the 'country. several pirates were killed and three pirates captured The totul loss is
in secretly. There is hope for the passage to Hongkong by the scatimated at $10,000.
inveterate opium smoker," says Dr. Aspland, "but practically none for the morphia en.er." A much higher percentage of curea is re- corded among the 12,000 addicts in the "curing houses" in the Yen- nen district of Shansi, where opium alone is used, for instance, than among the 36,000. Tsining ad- dicts who have been in "curing houses". during the year. These Governor is really trying to en- forge the anti-opium laws. Gover- nor Yen dealt with no fewer than figures, it must be remembered, re- present the state of affairs in the one province in China where the 20,000 drug trafickers in the course of last year. Yet the.com-j
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Opium Burning in Peking. At the end of the year, Dr. As- pland tells me he was present at a great burning of opium and mor phia outside the Temple of Agri- culture in Peking. This included 770 ounces of pure morphia, 1,107 parcels varying from a few ounces up to three pounds each, or mor- phia mixed with flour ready for making into pills, and bags con- laining 280,000 chintan (morphia) pills, besides 250 ounces of broken pills. These represented the mor. MANUFACTURED phia seizures in Peking for the twelve months up to November 30 last. And yet Dr. Aapland comments on this: "With the rigid enforcement of the anti- opium laws, 1925 ought to witness' a burning at least fifty times larger." In the province of Chihli last year nearly three-quarters of a million (Chinese) dollars was raised from fines for selling mor- phia pills. The Association is pressing that this sum should be used for treating and curing. of, drug addicts instead of as at pre- sent being allotted to the four Courts of Administration in Chihli
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