The retailing of the drug ts welt organized and the places of distribution are many. A review of the arrests made since the tref ie assumed large proportions shows that a con~ siderable proportion of the retailers are Koreans and Japanese. tie local Japanese press makes frequent retference to the cases, In dealing with offenders the courts impose widely differing penalties;, Chinese connected with the trafic are severely punished and even addicts are given long terms by the Chinese courts.
Whereas the cocaine habit can be broken off easily, heroin addiction so destructive to the nervous system that a cure Is not possible at present, at least no effective, genuine the user's Naval Veteran Mere deteriorates both Vice-Admiral 8, Tsuda, former Japan-oro. Naval Atiache "io" China and War and 'Shanghai on "Tues ma, Chichibu Maru, The Felired from the Japanese Navy' this mentally and morally. If he cannot obtain the narcotic he is plunged into deep mental distress and will do.almost anything to satisfy his craving. Because of the vicious associations through which he acquired the habit hhis case docs not usually come to the attention of medical authorities tinfoll and heating it over a spirit-lamp or small gas-burner. The fumes fare inhaled marder to produce the narcotic effect.
The third manner Is the easiest and the most popular with addicts: that of smoking the drug. An ordin" ary cigarette is picked up, a small amount of the tobacco is withdrawn at one end and heroin substituted. Then the cigarette is rolled gently, {n the vertical position, until the drug well mixed into the tobacco, The clyarette is finally smoked in the ordinary manner, In the case of Chinese users, the powder is frequent ly smoked in the common small. bowled pipe, where, mixed with tobacco, it attracts no more attention than ina cigarette, "Devastating Addtetion Heroin nddietion, as observed in the opinion physicians, there is no cure for the habit, and the mental sufferings of the victims are intense when they are deprived of the drug. The addicts include many foreigners, who seem ta react especially strongly to the narcotic. Some writers have compared the addiction with cancer, for Which no absolute cure Is as yet known, Acotic anhydride, the chemicut which is widely used in the manufacture of heroin, is being imported Into China in tremendous quantities, as pointed out by a member of the League of Nations Opium Committee St Geneva. Tt is_ manufactured in Western Europe, Soviet Russia and Japan, Abroad it is used not only in the production of heroin (from morphine) but in the manufacture of wpirin and acetyl-cellulose as. well. Neither'of the latter two preparations are produced in China, according 10 authentic information, "They are not manufactured in the Near East 'A League of Nations report points out that the Chinese Government established a special Customs heading for acetic anhydride as from January 41, 1035, It is reported that a large heroin factory is being established at Tungchow, in the autonomous East Hopei area,' and that large quantities "of until he either becomes seriously or tangles with the law. And then there is generally little hope of rehabilitation, The physical appearance of (the heroin addict is usually more charac~ teristic than that of other narcotic victims: emaciation, sallow skin, extreme weakness,' and a blank facial expression.
Owing to their social distribution—few are outside the criminal and pauper class—it is impossible to estimate with any degree of accuracy the number of heroin addicts. in Shanghai but it is admitted that they fare legion, and that the trate in the drug is widespread, lucrative and dimeult to eradicate.
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