DRUG TRAFFIC
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Japan's Effort to Demoralise Chinese CONTROL THWARTED
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(Received 14, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 13. The New Yorlc Times publishcs the following in its issue to-day: — "The bombings from the air have distracted the attention of the world from the deliberate attempt on the part of Japan to demoralise the Chinese by means of drugs. "The Japanese-controlled regions tn Manchukuo, which are the chief souree of heroin, morphine and opium, have attained this unsavoury prominence with the knowledge and often the protection of the Japanese authorities. "The inadequate penalties applied by Japan to Japanese nationals in China have paralysed the efforts of the Chinese to repress this illicit traffic. "As the manufaeture of drugs on a large ecale requirea an expanding market, with the impoverishment of the victims, the Japanese are already ldokiug outside China. "The United States and Egypt arb aware of the gravity of the situation."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 18, 14 October 1937, Page 5
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