The Archive · 1932

Drug Trafficking in China

yesterday received a copy of a me-'The "North-China Daily News"

morandum presented to the Com-of Inquiry of the Longue of by the National Anti-Opiam Assod.ation of Japanese drug in China under the. protec tion of extraterritoriality. - The sociation sieges that the activity of the Japanese drug traffickers are one of the main distarbtng circum: stances in Chin The memorandum then enumerates fifteen cases of the alleged activities of Jupanese drug traffickers in such cities as Shanghai, Tientsin, Peking, Tsingtao, ges that the apanese either operate opium dens open defiance of Chinese anti-

When the Chinese authorities have lodged protests with Japanese Con-muls, on the strength of the dence obtained, such protests have been totally disregarded by the Japanese on Mimsy" pretexts,—the nemorandim states,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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