Special Responsibility of Britain and America for Scandal of Smuggled Drugs From Our Own Correspondent, London, Nov. 27.
In an interview to-day, Sir John Jordan, who from 1906 to 1920 was British Minister in China, urged that the outcry regarding the Chinese in Cardiff in connexion with the drugging tragedy there should not shut the eyes' of the public to the special responsibility of Britain and America in the matter.
"If people knew the scandal of what was happening in China from smuggled morphia of British and American manufacture," he said, "they might be inclined to think that perhaps morally the boot should) be on the other leg. Not for a_ moment do I wish to defend the Chinese concerned in such cases, but we must remember that infinitely greater harm is being wrought in China, where the people, especially in the north, are being debauched by these drugs which the Western world manufactures. When I was in China, it could be proved that morphia, quite apart from other drugs, was being smuggled into China at the rate of 800,000 oz. a year.
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