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DEATH TO OPIUM ADDICTS

CHINA MEANS TO END EVILS

GOVERNMENT NOT FOOLING.

Tlontuin.

The Chinese Governmont's drivo against the narcotic evil is achlov- ing an amazing success in North China where the traffic is either belog destroyed or driven deep underground, it was apparent to-

The most ensual observer cannot escape noticing the vhat difference between the oplum smoking and peddling situation In tho foreign controlled concessions of Shanghat 48 compared with the Chinesa- controlled cities and communities in North Chino, at lenst.

China's charge, made to the Oplum Committee of the League of Nations recently, that the foreign .concessions in China Are the .centres of the drug traffic in the Orient, created much bitterness but there is some reason to believe the facts were truthfully stated.

Any person who has lived in Shanghai or in North China, and is well acquainted with the averago citizen, is struck at once with the changed attitude of the oplum smoker or narcotic user to the narcotic laws.

The average Shanghai Chinese does not believe it against the law to smoke oplum in his home al- though he knows that opium "dens"

SOUTH AMERICA CULTURE

SPREAD FAR TO NORTH-WEST

CHAIN OF EVIDENCE

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BACK TO OLD STANDARDS,

FRIDAY,

MARCH 29, 1935.

teachers and public functionaries! to select some form of athletica vincial, political and military ad- In his circular order to all pro and train in it regularly.

ministrations, 'General Chiang

The Generalissimo's decision to bluntly states that modern Chinese enforce a nation-wide programme public servante, especially those of individual and group physical occupying high places in party and training has not grown out of his military organisations, are, too personal experience practice, for fond of a life of case. To remedy the bulwark of the Chinese govern- ment has rarely been known to do much more than take short walks, usually accompanied by his Ameri- enn-educated wife,

this situation the head of the National Military Affairs Commla- sion has ordered that group physi cal training under qualified In- structors, must be enforced in all Nanking. Rather, the Generalissimo has organisations under control of the Physical tralaing as a means of gone back to the standard of the National Government. race strengthening fa strongly ad-anetent Chineso, who included ficials may be excused from laking High of- vocated by General Chiang Kai-archery and chariot racing song part in group training, but they shek, China's active but un-athletic the "six arts" to be excelled in by must train regularly in a branch which would require all students, public office..

man, in a blanket order every scholar and candidate for of physical activity of their own

choosing-United Prean.

Washington. Aboriginal South American cul-strong turo extended to the Bay Islands of the Caribbean off Honduras, a now report of the Smithsonian In- stitution indicates,

The report, by Dr. William Duncan Strong of the American Bureau of Ethnology is a study of "Chorotegan": typo civilisation, which at the time of Columbus centred in

Spanish Honduras, Nicaragus, and Coatn Rien. Some archaeologists have sought to find in it the basis of the Maya civilisa tion of Yuentan and Guatemala, the highest achieved in the aboriginal New World and one of the highest evolved independently anywhere on earth. It was much cruder than the higher culture, but bears cer- tain general and perhaps basic re-: semblances to it. The findings of the Smithsonian expedition indicate that people of the Bay Islands had borrowed little from the nearby Maya, whereas the influence of the moro distant Coath Rican civilian- tlon was strong..

Dr. Strong gives detalled des- criptions of the art facts recovered and the sites explored, with the conclusion that the culture of the Bay Islands represents an extreme northern thrust of South American influence and that any final solu tion of the major problems of Cen- tral America must await more thorough exploration of the south- ern continent.

"Most of the archaeological ́re- | mains on the Bay Islands and the adjacent mainland," he says, "show strong connections with the pre- Historic Highland area of Costa Tien. Highland only people of the region at the time of the conquest were the Guetar, who be long to the Chibchan Unguistic stock of South America... His- torical evidence, ethnology, archaeo- logy, and linguistics all combine to suggest that peoples of South American affiliations must hav beun responsible for most of the archaeological remains on the Bay! Islands and probably Ju Northern | Honduras as well.. That peo ples of Chibchan or affillated specch at least served as carriers of the culture Beems clearly demonstra- bie:

"The occurrence of this marked

For their own protection, million prehistoric thrust of South Ameri

aires and big business men are being finger printed in New York. Mr. Jahn D. Rockefeller, Jn. here enters the police files officially.

are' unlawful. Que con walk through any typical Chinese passageway in Shanghai and smell the pungent fumes of uplum emanating from the crowded houses on either alde.

corres-

Of the thousands of sing-song houses in Shanghai, this pondent has yet to hear of one where the opium lamp and pipe ure not always ready for the guest. Special precautions are not even Beccasary as in the United States during word"

the prohibition era, when or nurveillance through a peephole was necessary before admittance.

In Tientsin, Nanking, Peiping or any other city of North China, it la a different atory. Clinics are established everywhere to cuen narcotic and opium adolets. There

"publle" smoking as in Shanghai. Users lived in terror of being caught by the police and bolng given the "cure" for the first offence and facing a firing squad for the second.

There is, in Tientsin, only one "large oplum "den" known to most Chinese. It is in the Japanese

and:

con Influence as far North West us the Bay Islands has inter- esting theoretical connotations. It forms another link in the growing chain-of-evidence-indicating that the answers to many basie problems of Middle American culture history lie buried in the Southern con- tinent.United Press,

Concession and is said to te licenced, If there are others, they are Insignificant and not known to the average Chinese.

The fact that the anti-narcotic law is being strictly enforced against higher Chinese officials in North China, and the number of public executions witnessed here, are convincing the user in these parts that the Government is not fooling United Press.

The occasion of St. Patrick's Day falling on the Sabbath, made doubly Impressive the customary wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph, Shanghai, participated in by membara of St. Patrick's Society and representatives of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. At top left are shown Messrs. E. F. Hardman and S. C. Young, President and Vice President of the Society, with the floral offering in the shape of "The Harp that rang through Tara's Halle." Al top right are shown in file some of those who attend ed including Mr. Hardman, Mr. Young, Captain J. T. Inch and Mr. P. T. Givone. Left, below, are shown representatives of the Royal Inniskilling Fuilliers, on extreme left the piper who played an Irish lamant. At right, below, a representative of the Inniskilling Regiment lays the military offering.

To further good will between the Japanses and Chinese people, the "Asahi," a Japanese-built nero. plane owned by the Tokyo Asahi and the Osaka Arahi, recently visited Nanking and Shanghai. "The good-will plens is seen in the foreground before it loft Tokyo.

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