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Narcotic Problems

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SHANGHAI, (REUTER BY NAIL) — STARTLING REVELA- TIONS ARE CONTAINED IN A REPORT JUST 19STED ON THE NARCOTICS PROBLEM IN THAT CITY. IN FACTUAL, UNVAR- NISHED LANGUAGE, THE REPORT, COMPILED BY DR. M. S. BATES, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NANKING. MAKES A SERIES OF SENATIONAL ALLEGATIONS.

A quarter to a third, or even more, of the population have become drug addicts: revenue from oplam is the main support of a puppet government; unconcealed door-to-door peddling of berom goes on in the slums; young boys and girls lie in goal, their lives ruined by heroin; officials and police are honeycombed by drug users.

KING SENDS MESSAGE TO

HIS TROOPS

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CONFIDENCE

ASSURED

LONDON, Dec. 12 (Reuter)—H_M. the King sent this message" to Viscount Gort: "It has given me the greatest pleasure to visit the troops under your command in France and the days I have been able to spend among them have been full of interest, for I had the opportunity of seeing something of the conditions in which they are living and the work on which they are engaged.

"Tam satisfied) that the British soldier of

today 15 at least

efficiency and spirit.

These are among the charges declared by Japanese and Chinese made by Dr. Bates on information officials to be indispensable for the secured By careful questioning maintenance of any government in through a considerable number of this area under the present super-equal to his predecessor, both in friends, from officials of the Nank- Vision and circumstances. ing Municipal Government and the "Reformed Government," and from dealers and inspectors within the puppet narcotic distributing or ganisation.

STORES AND DENS..

"Furthermore, it is fully under- stood in political and military cir- cles that $3 per ounce is

not the total gain to the rulers of this area, any more than 1,000,000 ouncea ΟΙ opium is the total Dr. Bates reports that the 490.00 amount of that one kind of poison people who populate that part of they provide monthly for the the Nanking Municipality which people they profess to love and lies within and adjacent to the serve at great sacrifice. city walls are served by 30 public drug stores and by 175 licensed smoking dens, while in addition 14 hotels are known to hold Ucences And there is a large legal trade which officials are continually trying to force into channels pro- ftable to themselves, That is the extent of 'suppression.""

"Drug." the report goes on, His supplied by the 'Opium Suppres slon Bureau' at (Chinese "urrency) $10

рег ounce to public

"An expert official declares that $8 per ounce is the basic price pald

for oplum from" Dairen, plus 52 to other Jap- anese interests for transporta- tion. Therefore wholesale price of $19 provides $9 to cover the 'tax' of $3...

MILITARY PROTECTION "Since the trade not publicly organised, it

in heroin is cannot he statistically reported, except by

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"I send my best wishes to all ranks of the B.EF. and assure them of the complete and unfall- ing confidence placed in them by their fellow-countrymen."

GIFTS FROM THE EMPIRE

. LONDON, Dec. 12 (Reuter)-The

Dominions Secretary. Mr. Anthony! Eden, has acknowledged a gift of £100,000 raised by the South African Mayors...

In acknowledging the gift, Mr. Eden says it is a real encourage- ment for Britain to receive a wel- come mark of friendship from the union.

GENEROUS AMOUNT The inhabitants of Cyprus have started a fund to help the British

stores, which pass it on to the the military police or a few others Red Cross and have already raised |

closely associated with the higher minagement. An experienced

dens and to private buyers at about $22, with variations, according to dealer" says the supplies come in the supplies in hand. There is. evidence that the daily cales made heavy packages from Dalren and in regular fashion through "the Tientsin by the Tientsin-Fukow public stores average 3.000 ounces,

Raliway, escorted by Japanese or $66.000 retail"

ronla and fully protected by the military until they reach distribu- tion centres in Nanking.

"All reports emphasise evas- ions at every point: much. oplum is connected at no point with public sales organisations: Mspectors frequently fine dens for buying from outside stores.

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"It is probable that 20 to 30 per cent. or the opium sold by the stores passes to consumers outside

The chief merchants here are well known, four of them under the title 'great kings of 'heroin. Their selling or- ganisation includes some 2.400 persons and the number of addicts is well up in the tens of thousands,

the local population of 480,000. But vision of destruction, the conduct In view of this generous pro- that allowance is only a partial oset to the opium illegally distri- of the public authorities is trea buted within Nanking. The figure cherous indeed. They choke the of 3,000 ounces is therefore well criminal court and the police offices below the actual daily consump

with two kinds of cases which Sen.

occupy most their time: heroin addiction, and thieving, hot seldom

£5,000, for so small a population.

very generous amount

CHUNGKING'S NEW MAYOR ASSUMES OFFICE

CHUNGKING, Dec. 12 (Central) -Mr. Wu Kuo-chen, new Chung- king Mayor, assumed office yester- day. Po

administra-

Outlining his tion policy. he said that he would adjust prices of daily necessaries, speed up recon- struction, promote public health.

strengthen the pao chla tighten air raid precautions and (mutual. protection and guarantee) system.

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MARSHAL WU

PEIPING, Dec. 12 (Reuter)—A

"From one dollar a day upwards ls needed to maintain an addict, compounded. Because the places memorial service will be held for but many thousands of the poor of detention are crowded and prac-Marshal Wu Pel-fu on Jan. 7 and crawl along miserably on less than tically without food. it is. neces- the funeral service on Jan. 21, it that. It is believed that 3,000 ounces; sary to release most of the 'crimi-is reported locally. per day would represent at least nals' within Ave days:

Wang Ching-wei has sent, a 60,000 addicts. and that the It is the common complaint that message of condolence to the actual total is well above that heroin arrests are made for two family. figure.

The Executive Yuan of the "Reformed Government," which conducts the opium business In the vccupied portions of Kiangsu, Anhwel and Cheklang provinces, receives a monthly Income of $3,000,000 from a 'tax of $3 per ounce on 1,000,- 000 ounces of opium;

MAIN SUPPORT

"The "revenue of $3,000,000 from oplum is the main support of the 'Reformed Government, and is

purposes (1) extortion; (2) to maintain the oplum businesse

this and there will not be a against advancing competition

good person idīt in Nanking” " from heroin. A police officer de- clares that 20 to 30 bodies of starving why he has produced this re- Dr. Bates concludes by explain- ed heroin addicts are reported daily by tithingmen to be left on their hands for burial.

"Officialdom from top.to bot tom, including the police. are known to the public to be well represented among the drug users. A respectable teacher Kroans, Ten more years of

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"As a Christian missionary." he says. "I have prepared this re- port to share in the great tradition of those British missionaries who steadfastedly and with final suc- cess struggled against the oplum trade conducted by their country- men, and of those American mis- sionaries who led the international movement against narcotics der any flag, "oplum is an evi to be countered, a dishonour to those who profit by it, protect

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