ILLICIT DRUGS CUT AT SOURCE
Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, June 23. Occupatiort forces in Japan and Korea have cut off 90 per cent of the world 's pre-war illicit drug trade at its source, according to information given the War Department by General MacArthur's Director of Puhlic Health Welfare, Colonel Crawford Sams. There is now no illegal narcoties traffic in Japan. The Americans destroyed heroin valued at more than a million dollars. Other drugs have heen seized and poppy growing eliminated as a major agricultural occupation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 June 1946, Page 5
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