fact that fifty tont of morphia wre imported into Japan in lese“ four years, which is irrespective of the amount produced in Japane laboratories, almost all of which was re-exported to China. If the root of the evil is to be out out China must demand that Govern- ment inspectors be placed in overy laboratory in England and Japan; that all export be coatrolled by limiting the amounts exported to strict medical requirements to he asoartained and gtereoty,ed on an avera¿6-system; that all chemists in China be required to keep spe- cisl books for morphin and o :ium derivales; tout everyone dealing in morphia muet be registered by the Customs; that the Customs te en- powered to inspect all books; and that unauthorized sauling or dealing; in morphia in China be punished by deportation.
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By such measures and by such mercures alone can this monstrou! business be stoppec. ome years ago an inglish correspondent in churia shows in a griz latter how morphia after passing throu many hands, finally reached the Fanch rian labourer. The war. to approach a small window, thrust in his hand with the n. coin, and receive in return a puncture from the needle in the a. Reither victim nor the violator ever saw one another. The crime
license like a crime in the nigh. It was mechanical, stereotyped, as Lord Robert Cecil declared in parliament. At the present there? is no such evil as this in Chins loft so flagrantly unchecked, Thai Englani anould be just as responsible aɛ Japan for a continuance of this traffic is a bolt on her fair name which the British Goverɑms, must remove before a public denounces ont is mads at the League of
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