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"white drugs," morphia and. GARAGE
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Camming of Neutrle's, a daugh NOTES OF THE DAY
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
for
SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1936,
THIS HEROIN BUSINESS
that
A
new Wave of activity is sweeping over the world of drama,] This is affecting more particulur.
“Every day, stories of the smuggling
or seizure of enormous. quantities of narcotics are more conspicuous in our papers; every day, China and our own small Colony are being flooded with potential destruction; and every day, men and women are being taught de liberately to crave for themselves a living death, and for their children to prepare a future of moral and physical
destruction.”
THE pleture of the situation In Egypt before the mirack of Russell affords in several respects a. parallel to the present state of the drug question in China. How the parallel can be developed and the implication to be drawn thereform must be left to each reader to decide for himself. What cannot be doubt ed for a moment is that the problem of heroin addiction In an entirely different thing from the use of opium. In the case of opium there inny be two opinions an to the amount of About heroin there is damage done. only one possible judgment.
The corruption which is no unfort unate a feature of public life lu the Far East is an additional diffioulty, and the drug barons with their vast profits ready for use take full ad- vantage of it. Heroin above all drugs in their especial delight because It ta senally prepared, so easily adul terated, so easily carried and so casily distributed,, besides, being the
trug which most quickly and morselessly enslaves its victims so that until their death they are an unfailing source of gain, while their children, with their cruel heritage of poverty and nervous and physical instability, represent a further revenue in the near future.
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SPACE lacking to tell in detail the story of the great achieve- ment in Egypt. Russell Pashm realised at once that two things wers essential in the Aght, information, and the money with which to bury it.
A grant from Secret Service Funds of E£10,000 a year was given for the work, How the money was used to find out all there was to be known about the traffic and the traffickers, and to prove the sources of supply and the routes and methods of trans- port, must be read in the book itself. No' detective story has any more ex- riting tale to tell than that of thir
the repertory movement, ages of twenty and forty THE book is and which should be real-life tasks and its success. Repertory theatres are now pra-
viding most of the trained pro-was an addict. ducers and trained actors for the London stage. Repertory theatres
and Birmingham fer twenty years,
ductions to be seen there placo
A new reper-
Sons,
These wretched people
to meet with equally great success, professional,
Another indication of the in-
commercial,
read and re-read for many" rea-
More Important still, Russell Pasha realised that as the traille was inter- In the first place it is more thrilling notiyan), too must be the methods than any "thriller" and more enter of destroying it. Unselfishness and have been established in Liverpool were not, as one is apt to taining and fuller of barn interest far sightedness must be the watch words of the fighters. Every scent and the fine quality of the pro-take for granted, members than nest novels. Its second and must be followed no matter where it
niore profound appeal is to the man led. these theatres practically on the of the underworld or the who thinks enough to realise what So the trailie was traced to same rank as those of the best half world, but were found human life and happiness.
the drug traffic means in terms of headquarters in Vienna fast, then in Bulgaria, then in Turkey, and finally London theatres.
Many may ask "Am I my brother's where it still flourishes vigorously in the great cities of China and kreper?", but if they will read this Japan. book, the answer will be, "Yes--For it
Even that rather torpil and hardly- is my own interest too?".
rousel body, the Lengue of Nations, To those in Hongkong and the For was moved by Russell, Pasha, who bị East, particularly to those who are no polile terms but in simple and responsible for the well-being of those direct appeal, called for its help.
"Gentlemen," he said to them in whose lives they govern, it has a most 1980, "is it fair that Europe should vital importance.
pour its tons of poisons into my Every day stories of the smuggling save herself, but she cannot do it country. Egypt is fighting to or stizure of enormous quantities of without your help.... I know that And every narcotics are more conspicuous in our everyone in this room papers; every day China and our own right-minded person out of it is small Colony are being flooded with and I feel that I can go back to the detennined to kill this world canker, potential destruction; and every day country which I serve with the car- of the people of Egypt in the hands men and women are being taught de- tainty that I am leaving the welfare liberately to crave for themselves of men of wisdom, courage and lving death, and for their children determination.
a future of moral and to prepare
The co-operation of the League physical destruction. -
played no small part in the final- Vie Money that is so Hard to earn is tory. spent on vain efforts to satisfy anjin-' satiable desire, and to get the money
were
Thanks to the publicity being accorded to the subject, there are indications that public opinion istory theatre which has just been in every class of society, being aroused concerning the opened at Bournemouth is expected necessity of drastic measures being taken in this Colony creased interest in drama is the manual labourers, and worst.
the suppression of the development of the British Drama heroin-pill traffic. The Govern- League of amatear players. This of all, among the farmers, ment, also, is moving in the year's Drama League Festivals]
the healthiest and most matter, principally along the which were held in May
successful. Thore waA lines of propaganda' stressing the most
stable element in the coun- devastating effects of the drug on record entry of 747 competitors users and exposing the mischievin the English and 312 entries in try.
national festivals. ous and totally unfounded belief the Scottish
The problem of saving the Abant seven hundred different being put into circulation
e-act plays were performed in heroin is a cure for venereal dis-the two festivals. The winner of flower of Egypt's marihood from The prospect of heavier the most important prize, the the poison that was slowly and sentences on those actually caught | Lord Howard de Walden Trophy. engaged in the manufacture of was the Abingdon Guild of Abbey surely destroying body and soul pills is also envisaged. Heroin Players, for their performance of for use by drug addicts is by no Mr. A. J. Talbot's The Spartan was appalling in its difficulty. means new in the Far East It Girl". Since the Drama League But by 1985 the impossible had first came into notice in Shanghai Festival was inaugurated in 1926
it has grown considerably in im-been achieved. some fourteen or fifteen years ago, and in Hongkong some three Portance, and it has done valuable
work in eneguraging the writing How it was done is the theme years later. But the popularis- of one-act plays. The growth of of Baron Harry d'Erlanger's ing of heroin-pills is of compara-repertory theatres and the tively recent growth, particularly amateur stage in
have book
("The Last Plague of in Hongkong. In this connec-provided considerable scope for tion, it may be noted that in 1931 this type of play, which now holds Egypt") and its hero is Russell the total seizures in Hongkong an important place in the realm Pash were only 5,000 pills; Inst year, of British drama, the figure and grown to the
cases.
general
the addict wil stop at nothing. The
is of less importance to him than a
ture.
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slow death by hunger of his children TOWARDS the end of the book the author gives a brief resume of the present conditions of the drug traffic short respite from his ceaseless tor- in China, unming the principa] sources of supply Osaka, Dairen, and the umreds of small factories in the cities of Chink itself, so veniently near the source of supply which of the opium
is the raw material of morphia and its deadly
Ho derivatives including heroin. points out that no one can compete with Chinese production because of this, and because of the economic conditions which enable Chinese- produced drugs to be sold at a price which is absurdly small compared with the cost of those produced in Europe. le reiterates the dangers of the Concessions where the police of the different countries can be play-
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amazing total of approximately organisation compensate those 600,000, plus a sufficient quantity engaged in the traffic who may of the drug to manufacture thappen to be caught and fined; least, the same number of pills. also that they see to the wolfare This tremendous increase, how-
of the relatives of convicted per- ever, will, it is believed, pale into sons during the period of the insignificance when the figures latters' incarceration in gaol. If for the first half of the current this is so, one useful means which year are disclosed. Factors which might be employed for the pur- have materially assisted in the
pose of tracking down
CHAINSMKEJAKS KOMENGAGUMIK ZAPATA, SES DEUTEN expansion of the traffic are that behind the trade would seem to be
"Three-Power Barley" renda s. We should say that smokers on heroin is favoured by reason of to keep in contact with the fami- newspaper headline. Bree ex- the ferries are not the only people its greater convenience in use lies of imprisoned men, with a pected. when compared with opium; that
view
those
to discovering, if possible,
it is cleaner, and does not stain the source of their newly-found
nor induce foul breath, as is the wealth. Whilst it is believed that
with opium; that it is
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there is not a very heavy export:
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We notice there is to be a Teachers' Conference at flonolulu
ed off against each other, and remarks
on the powerful political weapon that
is offered by the use of drags, and cites cases In point. And he finally warns us that for the difficulty of the drug problem in the Far East to-day the powers who make profit "Turkey to Mount Guard from the raw oplum which gives Again", says another headline. the more dangerous products, and in whose "concessions, settlements and ing, must be held to bear some part at least of the responsibility.
cheaper, from twenty to forty of pills from Hongkong at pre- shortly, Professor Langston purpose of approximately fifty to sent, unless drastic measures are should be able to imbue them with's got two drumsticks, anyhow. leased territories") sell me fourth- sixty cents' worth of opium; and taken to stamp out the evil, the the right spirit.
Colony may in course of time! that the pills are easily concealed, become a big manufacturing and five hundred of them weighing distributing centre, thereby at-
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only about four and a half ounces. {tracting undesirable worldwide in favour of taxing, bachelors. We would exceed the speed limit KILL it be possible for us to look
occasionally, the noticed two- flappers taxing one
Pill-smoking is the most common attention.. Apart from form of indulgence, although in-
cigarettes in the powdered drug indulged, but addicts discovered
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back in ten years at a secand WHI victory like that in Egypt? Shanghai, or perhaps dongkong, be A blùc-gold-fish has been dis-remembered with gratitude as
home of another Hussell Pasha? covered. When they find u gold One thing la certain. This ovi blue-fish that will bo neway
which is sa vile that words are too weak to. describe it as it really is, is not a concern of Government de partments alone,.
Dogs are now definitely' banned! from bathing benchen. People are,
stances have been discovered in manufacture of pills, there are unmercifully the other night. which the addicts dip the ends of numbers of divans in the Colony in which the heroin habit may be
It is stated that Government and thus inhale the fumes. So far is the actual manufacture of the on such premises are not prose- cuted, the principal tenant being pills is concerned, no expensive proceeded against for possession duty-free petrol. They have to plant or equipment is needled, it being calculated that a factory or for permitting the premises, Shell out like, the rest of us, can be started by an outlay of being used as a divan. Heavier sentences, including caning, would
It is said that one feature of however, still permitted to take opinion, strong unafraid, and gener- from $500 to $1,000. As we
their chow along with them.... have previously pointed out, the appear to be advisable, and, in extreme mobility of these factor-addition, a big step in the direc- New Zealand blue cod in that it les operates against, ensy, detection of suppressing the evil would looks like haddock. The other. tion, and it is obvious that be the making of heroin-smoking feature, we understand, looks ke although seizures are increasing legal. In a matter of this kind, almost daily they represent but a nothing short of the most rigor ous action will be of ayall. The small proportion of the pills or authorities, by so proceeding. drug in circulation. The tracking would save, the Colony from It is asserted that oysters and
# down of agents and of others dreadful scourge and from a most certain spirits create an explosive behind the scenes is also extreme-
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It is a public responsibility which can only be dealt with by public ous in its readiness to make any moral or financial effort demanded to help the administrators of the. Far East to cope with it.
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A woman deporte has returned Feeling must be united and inter- to the Colony no fewer than thirty national and no barriers of race or
colour must prevent the most times. The pollee are now of thegrudging co-operation among those opinion that they can't banisheet of every nation who realise what haroin addiction is, and the destruc D D
tion it brings not only to the living but to the unborn.
ly difficult. There is a belief cur-unsavoury reputation which it combination. Some people do getIt is said that storks make good
the wind up after they've partaken. pets. Dear little ones, in fact. rent that the heads of the cannot afford to earn.
M. B.