TELEGRAPH, THE HONGKONG
THURSDAY, MAY
19, 1938.
Marihuana Drug Makes Gunmen Call and See Our New
Revelations At A Recent Trial In England
HE trial recently in which Mr. Justice Asquith
THE
sentenced the soldier-gunman, Andrew Van- derberg, to ten years' penal servitude for shooting at police officers reveals again the use made of the amazing drug marihuana.
For some months, picked detectives have been waging a campaign against a growing traffic in the drug, which has been distributed rolled ito cigarettes says a Daily Mail reporter.
me last He was sentenced to life imprison- A medical expert toid night that marihuana, or Americanment, but was released in February hemp, is a powerful intoxicant drug. last year and deported to England, prepared either by steeping the seeds In November ite enlisted in the 12th
Lancers, giving his age is 27. of the plant in spirit to make tincture for doping tobacco, from the powdered seed, or from the leaves.
BRAIN PARALYSED
FATHER'S EFFORT
AL his bome In Spital-street, Steppey, E. Inst night, I spoke to blind, 76-years-old Although described as an intoxicant. Vanderberg's its effort is very different from that father. of alcohol, as the inhaled fumes take effect more quickly and are much more intense and prolonged in their
action.
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21 sense The first exhilaration and loss of all feeling of fatigue.
"If only I hadn't been blind, my would never have gone wrong.
1 would have been able to look after him properly. He was a good son," he told me.
"1 got his sentence reduced when
he was in trouble in Canada,
"I never stopped trying to get him Next comes a phase in which thei addict must be up and doing, although out, then I sent letters written for all sense responsibility has gone me by my second wife--to everybody the and the most reckless acts may be concerned, even the Judge committed.
Finally asiuporous state in reached, in which all sense of time and place is lost. The brain is paralysed first at the inhibitory centres which normally keep a person under control.
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"1 saw the former Canadian Premier, Mr. R. B. Bennett, when he was in London. I was shown into a room in a large office some- where in the West End, and a man said to me, This is Mr. Bennett.' And I told him all about it. He said he would do what he could.
"My son joined the Army in 1916, thun 151⁄2
stated recently by It was Llewellyn, counsel for Vanderberg. that the gunman had been receiving suppiles of the drug in letters from former associates in Canada and the when he was not more United States, where marihuane has years old. When he was discharged a wide vogue among the elements.
"NO CLEMENCY "
criminal he
In his summing up, Mr. Justice Asquith declared that the fact that
Bred under shots
the
were
the
emotional disturbance produced by the drug was no exenuation of the crime.
"This kind of crime," he said, "can receive no clemency at all.
It
cannot be too clearly understood In this country that the methods of the gangster and the gunman are not going to be tolerated."
Vanderberg's 18-years-old accom- plice, Eddie Kaye, was sent to Borstal
for three years.
Divisional Detective-Inspector Harris disclosed in court that Vanderberg had served 10 years in a Canadian penitentiary for shooting two policemen while trying to rob a bank.
WILD nnly 18. I believe that preyed on his mind, and he was not responsible for what he did on the [night in question.
"My Just sight of him before went blind was when he was a in of 17, wearing the kit of a Canadian Scottish regiment."
PLANE SPOTS DRUG CROP
Alexandria. An illicit poppy plantation 140 incres in extent has been located by the Central Narcoties Information The plantation is situated in Assiut Bureau by means of an aeroplane. province, Upper Egypt.
The flight was undertaken following the receipt of secret information by the Bureau, and when aerial photo- graphs had been taken, police were sent to the spot and destroyed the en-
tire crop.
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Million In Gold On Dutch Plane
Bullion Arrives In Singapore
With gold bullion valued ai roughly one mit!lon Straits dollars, bound from Europe
to
the Far East, a Royal Dutch Air- Ines plane arrived at the Singa- HAMILTON, Ont-A Russian
pore Airport last week and the naturalization obtained his
papers
valuable cargo spent the night in here. In the language test the judge:
a bank strongroom. asked him: "What docs your SOY about conditions in
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the valuable cargo, was watched by two armed guards at each night stop on the way from Amsterdam to Singa- pore, the gold, wrapped two bars at a time in light canvas, was removed inconspicuously at the airport.
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the airliner to
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from
ting motor-car in an ordinary air-
port luggage barrow,
The pneumailo tyres bulged as the small gold shipment was piled into the barrow.
The
gold
strongroom guard.
spent the night in a bank under special armed
It will be shipped from Singapore by the first available ship.
Airilne and other officials were most reluctant to discuss the matter or sup
supply any Information about the gold.
Gold and silver bullion passes through Singapore in ships severni times a year and small loads have been taken by air before, but it is
unusual to find a shipment of such value being taken by air.
Smugglers Of Drugs
Dress As Nuns And Friars
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Alexandria.
Posing as Franciscan friars and nuns respectively, two youths and two girls, attempted to smuzgle over 100 pounds of oplum and the notorious drug marihuana: Egypt at Alexandria.
into
tradi-
The "friars, wearing the tlonal robes and sandals, complete with bushy black beards, boarded the Italian steamer Marco Polo, followed by the "nuns," half an hour before she was due to sail,
They went ashore fifteen minutes later, but alert plainclothes police- men noticed that comething had changed their appearance and their golt.
When challenged tlicy indig- nantly refused to be searched. They were arrested, and found to have many packets of the drugs attached round their legs, arms, and waists.
One of the four is in his carly, twenties. All the others are urider twenty.
The police believe that they are,
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