Peking, Apr. 18. has handed the to Reuler's. Agency for "The Internati Association reported the results in 1924 of the Special Administration Court appointd to deal with. the morphia pill probleny in Chihli Pro-Vince. It was pointed out that morphia pill makers and sellers were fined in 67 hsien out of 116 in the Province and that the fines totalled $602,129. This sum was divided be-Jéween several of the provincial ad-
"The Association made strong representations on the subject of fines, declaring from world-wide information that fines have never been a deterrent were narcotics are concerned, Hence, many Western jeountries have done away with fines jand have instituted severe prisser JRentences, The Assceiation also suggested that fines had such little effect on Chinese traffickers: that the same process of the Administration (Court could be repeated from year to year and might come to be looked upon as a source of revenue by the authorities and a form of taxation the dealers.
"That it has not interfered with the trafic is evidenced by the fact {that a correspondent has sent us the names and addresses of eleven morphia pill manufacturers in the Pu Yang Hsien, and states that retailers are. too numerous late, "If the Chibli Administra.
ish to make money out of morphia pills they are going about the right way, but if they wish {to suppress this destructive traffic. [then it can only be done by giving the culprits the full penalty of the Chinese Criminal Pacific Service.
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