JAPANESE DRUG WEAPON

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 5

JAPANESE DRUG WEAPON

Results In Manchuria MILLIONS DEEPER IN SUBJECTION

(By Telegraph— Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received September 6, 8.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 5.

Thd Chungking representative of the “New York Times” says that as a result of the Japanese policy of poisoning Chinese minds and bodies, 13,000,000 people in northern Manchuria have become opium addicts out of the total population of 30,000,000, according to the spokesman of the Chinese Ministry of the Interior.

Since the creation of the puppet regime in North China, narcotics have been sold openly under Japanese supervision, with shops springing up everywhere. The Japanese in Shansi Province have instituted a system of bartering cotton cloths, rice and salt for opium. HITLER TERROR e. . French Jews’ Greatest Agony (British Official Wireless.) (Received September 6, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, September 5. Details of the round-up of Jews in France which are now reaching Britain show that 28,000 men, women and children have been herded together, many being dragged from their homes and even from hospitals. Three hundred suicides were reported hi Paris. Women threw children from six-floor windows and then jumped to death. Three hundred police were dismissed for Jewish sympathies, and eight high officials who resigned had their papers stamped “Jewish sympathizers.” Ten thousand of the Jews have already been deported to Germany. The American Embassy in Vichy has made a vigorous protest to a high French authority regarding the recent mass deportations of Jewish refugees from unoccupied France (says a message from Washington).. Ten thousand Jew’s are reported to have 'been loaded on trains under brutal and heart-break-ing conditions and sent to Eastern Europe, where they are forced to live in wretched conditions and in many cases become the victims of mass murders. Though the Nazis for long have been deporting Jews from Germany, this is the first time they have applied the. policy in a country which they have not occupied and with which the United States maintains diplomatic relations. Heydrich’s “Murderers.” The Berne correspondent of the “New York Times” says the .Gestapo executed four high dignitaries of the Orthodox Church in Prague after a public trial by a special tribunal on charges of having murdered Reinhard Heydrich, the Gestapo lender in occupied Europe, and also with -having sheltered enemy parachutists who were landed in Protectorate territory.. Slovenes -have sent appeals to London for the continuance of threats of reprisals against Italians and Germans for outrages in the Balkans. The appeals say the conditions in Slovenia are terrible, but that the reign of terror has decreased as a result of threats from London.

Yugoslav circles in London yesterday said that 311 hostages were shot in the last 10 days in Yugoslavia. Italian troops ravaged 104 villages, of which 16 were completely burned down. The German authorities in Upper Carniola wiped out 10 villages, killing all the males. All men between 15 and 60 were deported from areas along the railway line for fear of sabotage. Entire families are carried off if one member is absent from home without an explanation.