U.S.A. DOCTOR’S CHARGE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1930, Page 8

U.S.A. DOCTOR’S CHARGE

AGAINST BRITISH TRADING

t United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

WASHINGTON, February 8

Representative . Doctor Sirovicli, of the United States Congress, is appealing to the House of Representatives to lend its forces for some sort of international control of the narcotic traffic. He charged certain countries, chiefly Britain, with “commercialising the life blood and flesh of human beings” in persisting in her opium (traffic.

Doctor Sirovieli, during an hour’s review, in the United States House of the “dope” traffic’s history, persistently ran out bis trail to the door of British Empire. He said: “The fact seems to be that the British Government is responsible for the large quantities of opium flooding the world today. The cultivation of the poppy is fostered by that Government, and it is manufactured into opium in the Government’s factory, and then is manufactured into morphine by British firms in London and in Edinburgh. In the name of decency, let us say to any nation that the time has come when we must destroy at least three-fourths of all of the pharinaeautical drug houses operated.” Doctor Sirovieli stated that since prohibition, there has been in America a notable spread of the drug addiction, which is increasing daily, with one narcotic agent to every five hundred thousand citizens in the United States.