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PHOTONEWS
DOPE-SMUGGLERS
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1938,
HAPPENINGS
AS SEEN
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THE CAMERA'S EYE
IN THE NORTH
In the old days it was opium. To-day horoin, almost unknown in China as recently as 1928, is one of the commonest drugs used by addicts.
Though the habit of heroin-taking has increased so rapidly, the most determined efforts are being made by the Chinese Government to put an end to the practice. These efforts consist of strong propaganda against drug-taking, the opening of
RAJPUTAN GREENOCK
more than 600 treatment contres for addicts up and down the country, and the most stringent laws against drug-smugglers, PO BRITISH INDIA-APTAR AND
and addicts who relapse after being discharged from a treatment contro.
Death is often the penalty for smugglers and relapsed addicts-as it is also for farmers who grow the forbidden opium-EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES poppy. This law is administered without respect of persons. A general who was found to be using one of his acroplanes for drug-smuggling was led away immediately and shot.
The hospitals in Peiping alone admitted 5,500 patients in 10 months of these only 60 were known later to have re- lapsed into drug-taking. Of the 60, 20 were finally set free, 30 were given terms of imprisonment, and 10 were simply be- hoaded.
The authorities reckon that Peiping alone still contains 40,000 drug addicts—more than a quarter of whom are coolies ́and manual labourers who take to the drug for relief from physical exhaustion.
20,000 drug-dealers operating Other countries cannot claim to have clean hands in respect of China's drug-problem. in Peiping are Japanese subjects—and the Chinese say that they got no satisfaction from handing them over to the Japanesc authorities. Many British vessels, they also stato, are engaged in the drug-smuggling business.
BRANDING THE SMUGGLER PENALTY FOR A FIRST OFFENCE
The aimuggler is taken to one of the 800 centres recently opened for the treatment of drug addicts. Hore he is branded on the arm. If he in qught a second time he will be shot. In 1948, 209 dṛuth sentences
ARREST OF A HEROIN SMUGGLER
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Chinese police arrest a 'heroin'smuggler outside the railway station at Peiping, Peiping to said to contain 40,000 addicts, and the most determined efforts are being made to put down the drug traffic.
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A branded man has been caught by the police. Though he knows he is going to death he has still enough curiosity to gaze at Me photographer. Herein, now becoming the commonest of drugs, de usually ,tüken in cigarettes, pinches of it boing pushed in among the tobacco.
HE WILL SMUGGLE NO MORE
No trial. No pronouncing of death sonionee. No "benefit of clergy" A branded man has been found with druge concealed about him. He is taken away into a field and shot. There is not even a firing squad...no need to vo aate bullets on a dope smuggler, 'Right, his tury next.
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