1939-01-14 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DRUG TRAFFIC IN FAR EAST

(Continued from Page 23

The matter has been taken up in the columns of the "Times," which said that the action of the Japanese

Government

this grave problem, it does at least! mean that we are in closer touch with the representatives of Japan, and that we sholt thus be able to tach to the matter. Idrust that any make clear the gravity which we at- information which may emerge from there contacts will help us to arrive moro quickly at

satisfactory Bomo decision.

impressed by the sincerity of the hon. that the hon. Member for Wallsend and gallant Member for Nuneaton said at the League that there was (Lieut.-Commander Fletcher) in much ground for satisfaction in the bringing this subject before the steady progress of the League's work House this afternoon. His Majesty's for the control of the oplum traffic, Government view with grave concern and that this work had been of a "paralysed the efforts of the Chinese the drug altuation such as it was pluneering character. She drew ut-

REVIEW OF POSITION Government in repressing the Connitice last June, and reviewed of annual reports from Governments position to which I referred in my described by the Opium Advisory tention to the fact that the number

Let me give a short review of the traffic

and rendered inoperative in

by

From the League of Nations this had increased very considerably and opening remarks.

the in- advance any effort made by the Lea* autumn. I will give to the House went on to support the Anal resolution formation in the possession of my. gue of Nations,"

the Information that we have derived wh from various parts of the For East. I think that this will indicate the extent of the growth of trame in the Far East, and I hope)

the drug that it will give an indication of the extent to which we think nibility should be attached to

I quote two more most significant paranger from the "Times," which wo would do well to bear in mind:

"When the Northern Chinese have been demoralized and impoverished the manufacturers of heroin will no doubt send consignments to poison richer peoples in other countries," and

As a commentary on this the "Times" might well have quoted a statement by the Japanese delegate to Geneva,

who said:

"We are

nation

of Samurai.

With us honour is more important

than anything else."

FOUL CAMPAIGN.

"Sinurai"

Well I do not know the language, but I imagine that

is Japanese for dope peddlers. The civilised nation of the world are trying to stamp out his illicit traße in drugs, with all the horror and degradation that that trafle spells. One nation, and one sation alone, in the world, labours to extend the traffle, and that nation is Japan, a nation which boasts of ruler descended from The gods, and pursuins! the foulest campaign Imaginable.

I appeal to the Under-Secretary to give this matter his personal atten- tion. He has had Ministerlaf connec- tion with India, his Noble Friend has been an illustrious Viceroy of India;

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respon- any

Noble Friend there is berceras pussed and which has that the increased drug traffle in no evidence been sent to various Governments including

is the outcome of any deliber- His Majesty's Govern-China is the ment.

ate plan o

part of the Japanese plan on the part of the Government, or that it is aimed at The committee was asked to ad- Chinese people. I think the diagnosis

the systematic demoralisation of

of the dress an urgent appeal to the Japan- which most correctly fits this ese Government and proposed a re-tren

APPEAL TO JAPAN

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| particular quarter. One very serious golution stating that the Aecembly/tremely serious position is somewhat;

"The pleasure given by wine is al-nhu ways rapidly mounting nud tendin to a crisis, after which as rapidly it declines. That from opium, when ence generaled, is stationary for eight or ten hours. The one Bickering dame, the other a and equable glow."

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January 14, 1939.

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but my Noble Friend has no in- formation as to the attitude of the Japanese milltary authorities to this trade. In

other towns in North China it appears that there has also been on increase in this trame, but, as I said, the main source of the drug is Tientsin.

"the danger to other countries if this has been referred to by the hon, and feature of the growls of the traffic

had taken note of the report of the follows, The reports which we vast production of narcoties is allow-

Seventh Committee relating ed to continue unchecked need hardly Kollont Member, and that is the trafle in the Far

received from North Chino the seem to confirm the statements made be emphasised."

growth in the use of heroin. The

East, part- use of opium in Itself is

at the meeter last Jung.

of the Oplum Ad- terrible curly in the areas of Chinn under

control of the Japanese forces, isory the and gripping vice, but heroin is

and noting that the situation had North China, before the Japanese something far more serious. I ex-

ta 1937, an attempt was pect the House will remember the

grown worse during the past year:

accupation Being made by the Chinese Central in which

Itself Gover nyinner

associated De

Quincey that the Assembly contrasts the difference between the with the resolution adopted by the Government to enforce the drastic use of alcohol and the use of opium. Advisory Committee at its twenty-been promulgated by them in 1035. spium and narcotic laws which had He says:

second and twenty-third sessions,

BRITISH ATTITUDE and with the

There were indications that therein mode That tent from the They had reached a position in were to some extent being success- Governi

So much for the general review of to the

concerned.

conditions in the Far East in relation League in the autumn of this year to carry out atiff enactments against which an attempt was being made

to the drug traffle. The hon. and gallant Member will appreciate that Governments, and it his these drugs. to various

I have given him the facts far as His Majesty's Gov- cen received by 1

Since the Japanese occupation of we have them in answer ernment. The matter is having our this region these deterrents, whether rather lurid and terrible picture lo the Immediate attention. I go further than the word "consideration" which or ordinances, or whatever you like

they were in the form of legislation which he was obliged to paint. He the hon, and gallant Gentleman use to

nsked me

me whether the British Am- prolest to We must remember the difficulty and say that it is having our to call them, have to a large extent bassador would make a which De Quincey bad in escaping nellate attention. We are in com

disappeared, so that the

position the Japanese authorities. I trust he from this terrible vice, and therefore munt

will have observed the reference in munication with the other Govern- seems to us to have become worse. we may take it that he did not ex-ments and not only those Govern which explains the trouble which we titude in this matter.

That, I think, is

the course of correct diagnosis

my remarks to Our al- nuperate his feeling of the glow which meats

We have pre- ents which are members he derived from it on

of the Occasions, wire

League and I can assure the hon. and

are going through at the present ferro

sent ferred the international approach, Kallant Member that the matter wil Febr

and time. TU take

in the method of collective action. We an example, February, 130,

1938, Government ordin- believe that not only have my personal attention

in this matter of the but the close personal attention of preci were repealed by the Petting drug traffe there Is a real oppor- my Noble Friend, both for the rea- it was announced that the Peking and we do not intend that that op-

Government and in May tunity for the

The League of Nations, and which breaks down all the

because of the gravity of the issue decided to allow the opening of 300 to continue our close examination of barriers of morality and leads to the

itself. most terrible acts; when we reailse

So much for the action taken nt

opium dens. That is an example of the matter, and wherever possible, in from our information that this heroin Geneva and the immediate attention the extent of the growth of the company with other Governments, to is getting a greater hold upon the

trafe. On the other hand, certain use the international method, and, which is being given to the problem ordinances have been issued by the we hope, to solve this terrible pro- youth in the Far East-youths even wh of the age of 12-we can understand by His Majesty's Government, 1 am Provisional Government for the con- blem. When we discuss this subject. the temptation of a little case from the trave extent of the problem able to tell the House that a fur- trol of the traffic, the effect of which I and when we realise the terrible toll! ther step is being taken. There was is not yet possible to estimate, which this drug takes on so many signed in 1930 an Anglo-Japanese. ** Drug Traffle Agreement. It

but I can assure the lion, and gallant people in the Far East, let us re- not Member that we shall watch

member the diffeulties of a man who Provisional Government.

De Quincey himself, who said: bound to give the House the in "I did accomplish my escape, I formation in my possession, and it

triumphed. But inter not, reader, to us that since the formal from this word 'triumphed' a condi- repeal of the Chinese Government's tion of joy or exultation. Think of Our ordinaners oplum pipes and smoking me as one, even when four months

the

When we consider heroin and terrible effect it has on its victim how they tremble and shaite--and the deplorable condition which

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they are, therefore, in a position to immediately produced by this druk sons to which he referred, and also Consolidated Tax Administration had portunity shall be lost. We introd

appreciate the dangers of the con sequences of Japanese policy. The spread of white drugs in India would be terrible to contemplate. The half-starved, over-worked millions there, sufferbug

from

debilitating tropical diseases, are very prone to their miseries. This problem is a serious one in relation to India.

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which faces us.

Information

the

ask for an answer from the Minister that we have on the subject in re posstufe to take definite aetion on effects of the new ordinances of the did escape from the power of opium, |

to

Before I Inficate the

on to the Far East, I would like to the League of Nations this autumn. describe the action that was taken al

I would like here to pay a tribute to my hon. Friend the Member Wallsend (Miss Ward) Presented this country on the com- milice which considered the traile in

for

WC

om

which will condemn in no uncertain terms

the policy of fostering the drug traffic and express determination to prevent the spread of the evil British rpheres of influence: and I hope that our Ambassador at Tokyo may be instructed to explain to the Japanese Guvernmeal the disastrous effects upon frilish public opitun in opium and other dangerous drugs. I operate with the appropriate Japan- sale openly at stalls and markets throbbing, palpitating, shattered: and)

who

appears

this year when that Agreement until the autumn of arranged for closer co-operation between Majesty's diplomatic and consules

Meers and

similar representatives of the Japanese Government. officers have been instructed to co-

accessories appear to be offered for

19 had passed, stil ngitated, writhing, I should also like to reinforce the ese authorities by mutually com- tribute paid by the hon, and gallant mimicating information

regarding in the Chinese city of Peking. In- much perhaps in the situation of him Member Sir Thomas Russell for proceedings and movements of numerable drug shops were opened there is MR. BUTLER REPLIES

the work he has done in this connec persons known to be engaged in unt at the present time tion. Hon. Members will have seen illicit drug traffle. This new

scarcely a street without one or more The Under-Secretary of State for from the White Paper which was operation has just been put in shops where drugs may be obtained Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler): 1 feel presented 10 the House ເນ 19th notion, and although #

and even

even indulged in oh well. sure that the House will have been December (Command Paper 58001, amount to an immediate solution of

relation to Anglo-Japanese relations of the matters to which I have called oftention to-day,

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whɔ has been racked."

Many of these victims have been on the rack, and the Governments of the world feel shattered themselves by the immensity of the problem. As regards Manchuria, my Noble It is our wish now to escape. Friend has no definite information other than the published budget figures, for 1038 which Indicate That the amount of quittin

handled by the monopoly has increased. It re- cently reported that new ordinances aimed at the control of the narcotic. trade have been

een issued, but it is as yet too early to state how they will operate. A report on the drug situa- tion in Manchuria has been called for from His Majesty's representa- lives, as I think 1 informed the House in answer lo one of the

DI the many questions to which the bon, and gat- lant Member referred.

The position

in Central China does not appear so serious. Ordinances have recently been promulgated by the Nanking Provincial Government alming at the control of the

the drug traffe, but again an not able to give the House any definite information as to their like ly result. Taken together with the information which I gave the House about heroin, think hon. Members | whit see that there has been a de-) Baite increase in various parts of the Far East, that there have been some ordinances passed but at the repeat of the previous ordinances of the Chinese Government has result- red, in our view, in an increase in the fraffic. The actual increase in the traffic in heroin chiefly cmanates from the City of Tientsin. Trade in this drug is largely confined to Korean pedlars who have followed in the wake of the Japanese urmies,

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