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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931. !

HACKING AT THE DOPE OCTOPUS.

Loopholes Blocked Up in Europe.

PROFITS ENORMOUS.

OIL DEBENTURES.

P

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ROYAL DUTCH PROFIT BY LOW

INTEREST.

The Hague, Yesterday,-

Although over twenty million florins of five per cent. debentures wers isued only twelve months age [By Leslle R. Aldous.]

for a period of fifty years, the Constant vigilance is the price Board of the Royal Dutch Company which the nations of the world has decided to exercise its right to must pay for success. în fighting redeem them on two months notice the menace of the dope traffic. at 102% per cent, and thus profit by This lesson has been forcibly the prevailing low rates of interest. driven home at the League of Reuter.

Nations discussions recently held!

in Geneva, where reports have

been received from all parts of

the globe. The scourge of dan-

END OF GALLANT

FIGHT..

New York Paper Changes Hands.

FANCY PRICES.

New York; Yesterday.

Newsboys renped a harvest in selling the last editions of the New York World at fancy prices up to a dollar. On the other hand there were many sad eyes inside the office as the paper went to press for the last time, marking the end of a long and gallant Oght that the three brothers Pulitzer have had against heavy odds to maintain the paper built up by their father.

The morning, evening, and Sun-

gerous drugs might be likened to League of Nations has shown that a gigantic, intangible octopus; the majority of important seiz almost as fast as one tentacle is ures of illicit cargoes of drugs. lopped away by the League of during recent months could Lo day editions of the World have bem Nations another swings round to traced back to Constantinople. merged with the telegram under the World Telegram. No In Turkey, three big factories, composite title seize humanity in its grasp. continent can escape, not even have been established, the whole the first number of which appeared of the output of which is believed to-day-Reuter's American Bor distant Australia.

to pass into the illicit traffic. vice. Russell Pasha, head of the Egyp-

SOLDIERS' BILL.

VETO.

Washington, Yesterday.

Happy Hunting Grounds. Many countries in Europe, a tian Narcotics Intelligence few years ago, were happy hunt- Bureau, reports to the League! ing grounds for the acoundrels that the Turkish factories have who reaped fabulous profits by exported four tons of heroin and smuggling morphine, heroin and two tons of morphine in six SENATE OVERRIDES HOOVER'S cocaine. During the past two months, whereas two tons of years, largely owing to the in-heroin would supply the whole fluence of the League and the world's legitimate requirements wide application of its Opium for a year. Convention, loopholes have been

The Senate, like the House of League's Moral Influence. blocked up. Striking reforms, in

Representatives, has overriden particular, have taken place in A special League of Nations President Hoover's veto on the France and Switzerland in the Conference in May will be dealing Ex-Services Bonus Bill-Reuter's Intter country the manufacture with the problem of restricting American Service. of opium derivatives has been cut the output of drug factories in down by about 75 per cent. different countries to medical and

Unfortunately, the profits at scientific requirements. The at stake, often running into thou-titude of Turkey complicates the sands per cent, on the outlay, are situation, for, otherwise, a large

APPOINTMENTS,

His Excellency the Governor has

80 enormous that the traffickers measure of agreement has been appointed Mr. Chaloner Grenville are not easily deterred. When reached among the countries con- Alabaster, K.C., O.B.E., to be At- one country becomes too hot for cerned. Every opportunity has torney General, with effect from them, they disappear to some been taken at Geneva to urge February 19. other place from which they will upon the Turkish delegate the

be able to operate with less fear need for reform and stricter Gov-|

* # *

Mr. Alan Eustace Wood resumed

of detection. Just at present, ernmental control over the fac-duty as Secretary for Chinese the worst characters in the illicit tories. There are signs that this Affairs, with effect from February drug business seem to have con- may have some effect upon Tur-21. gregated in the neighbourhood of kish policy. The League's moral Constantinople.

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influence has, in the past, been His Excellency the Governor has Drug Factories in Turkey.. sufficient to change the opium appointed Mr. Frank Arthur Hop- By comparing the evidence policies of Persia and India, so kine to be Assietant Superintendent available from places as far apart the case of Turkey is by no of Prisons, with effect from Febru as Shanghai and New York, the means hopeless,

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