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DEATH TO OPIUM ADDICTS

CHINA MEANS TO END EVILS

GOVERNMENT NOT FOOLING

Tientsin.

The Chinco Government's drivo against the narcotic evil is achlov- ing an amazing success in North China whore the trafic is either being destroyed or driven doop underground, it was apparent to- day:

The ment casual observer cannot escape noticing the vast difference between the oplum smoking and peddling situation in the foreign-, controlled concessions of Shanghail 28 ccmparod with the... Chinese controlled cities and communities in North China, at least.

China's charge, mndo to the

·Oplum Committee of the League of Nations recently, that the foreign concessions in Ching aro 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 average citizen, in struck at once with the changed attitude of the oplum smoker or narcotic user to the narcotic lawa.

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

For their own protection, million. aires and big business men. are being Singer-printed in New York. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jn. here entors the police files officially,

are unlawful. One Can walk through any typical Chinesa passageway in Shanghai and smell the pungent fumes of opium emanating from the crowded houses un either side.

Of the thousands of sing-song bopaca In Shangbai, this corres- pondent has yet to hour of one where the opium lamp and pipe are not always roady-for-the-guest.- Special precautions. are not even necessary as in the United States during the prohibition era, when

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"password" ·or surveillance through peophole, was necessary before admittance.

In Tientsin, Nanking, Peiping or any other city of North China, it is a different story. Clinics are established everywhere to cure narcotic and oplum addicts. There is no "pubile" smoking us in Shanghai. Users lived in terror of being caught by the police and being given the "cure" for the first offence and facing a firing squad for the second.

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

SOUTH AMERICA CULTURE

SPREAD FAR TO NORTH-WEST

CHAIN OF EVIDENCE

Washington.

Aboriginal South American cul- ture extended to the Bay Islands of the Caribbean off Honduras, a new report of the Smithsonian In- stitution Indicates,

The report, by Dr. William Duncan Strong of the American Bureau of Ethnology is a study of "Chorologan" type civiligation, which at the time of Columbus centred in Spanish Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Some rehnealogista have sought to find in it the baate 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 more dialant Costa Rican civilisa- tion was strong.

Dr. Strong gives detailed des- criptions of the art facts recovered and the sites explored, with the conclusion that the culture of the Bay Islands represents an extréme northern thrust of South American Influence and that any final solu- tion of the mujor 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 Rica,

The only people of the Highland region, at the time of the Conquest were the Guetar, who be long to the Chibchan linguistic

atock of South Amerien. " His- torical evidence, ethnology, archeo- logy, and linguistics all combine to suggest that peoples of South American affiliatlone must have been responsible for most of the archaeological remains on the Bay Islands and probably in Northern Honduras as well. ..That peo ples of Chibchan or affiliated speech at least served as carriers of the culture seems clearly demonstra- ble.

"The occurrence of this marked prehistoric thrust of South Ameri- j can influence as far North and West as the Bay Islands has inter- eating theoretical connotations. It forms another link in the growing chain of evidence indienting that the answers to many basic problems of Middle American culture history lie buried in the Southern con- tinent.-United Press.

Concession and is said to be 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 execuilons witnessed here, are convincing the user in these reoling.-United Press. parts that the Government is not

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CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S

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Nanking.

FRIDAY, MARCH 29,

1935.

teachers and public functionarins. In his circular order to all pro- to select some form of athletica vincini, political and military ad- and train In It regularly.

ministrations, General Chiang

The Generalissimo's decision to bluntly states that modern Chinese enforce a nation-wide programme public servants, 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 ease. To remedy the bulwark of the Chinese govern-

ment has rarely been known to do this situation the head of the much more than take short walks, National Military Affairs Commis- usually accompanied by his Ameri-ion has ordered that group physi can-educated wife.

cal training, under qualifed in- Istructors, must be onforced In all Rather, the Generalissimo has organisations under control of the Physical training as a means of gone back to the standard of the National Government. High of race strengthening is strongly nd- anefent Chinese, who included | ficials may be oxensed from taking vocated by General. Chiang Kal. archery and chariot racing among part in group training, but they ahuk, China's active but un-athletle the "six aris" to be excelled in by must train regularly in a branch strong man, in a blanket order every scholar and candidate for of physical activity of their own which would require all students; public office.

choosing.-United Press.

The occasion of St. Patrick's Day falling on the Sabbath made doubly impressive the customary *wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph, Shanghat, participated in by members of St. Patrick's Society and representatives of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. A top left are shown Masera, 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 Halla." At top right are shown in file some of those who attend. d'including Mr. Hardman, Mr. Young, Captain J. T. lach and Mr. P. T. Givana, Lalt, halow, are shown representatives of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, on extreme left the piper who played an Irish iament. At right, below, a representative of the Inniskilling Regiment lays the military offering.

To further good will between the Japanese and Chinnas people, the "Aiaki," a Japanese-built soro- plans owned by the Tokyo Asahi and the Osaka Asahi, recently visited Nanking and Shaughal. The good will plane la saan in the foreground before it left Tokyo.

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Mr. Hasolden's clover cartoon, re- produced above by kind permission of the London "Dally Mirror," makes Jest of the tendency now-a- days to regard pastimes merely as health-aids. To extract all the en- loyment possible, out of both work and play, depending upon Pinkettes, the gentle litle liver Iaxatives, to

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Vast numbers of Chineis mavia fans in Shanghai turned out an, maaan-in view the funeral procmision for Miss Yuan Ling-yu, cinema - tragedienne, who was rannked second only to Butterfly. Wu în, the native cinema consteilzifón. Al top left is shown'a oross section of the throng in Kisochan Road. „Top right is shown a gigantlo glassícovorad pleture of the late star. "A bottom left is seen the bus which conveyed part of the elaborate floral offeringu-marchere may be seen holding-strands of the black'rops which encircled groups of the film colony who walked in the parade. At bottom right is shown the casket, with Mr. Tang Chi-ann, uhlef mourner a cless friend of the

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