Geneva, May 20, Acotic anhydride sufficient to manufacture the world's legitimate ro-quirements of ho coin from thirty to sixtyfold was imported into China in 1033, said Mr. Stuart Fuller, the United States, representative on the Opium Committee of the League of Nations, in a statement to-day.
Legitimate imports of this chemical, he declared, totalled 31,000 kilos. of Which 26,706 came from'Japan. This, total did not include ihe amounts. entering China clandestinely.
There had also been manufacture of the chemical in Shanghai in 1035 by a plant with a potential out: at of 250,000 kilos a year, Mr, Fu: 2 added.
The legitimate commercial demand tu China for acetic anhydride almost non-existent.
Representatives of the United States and Canada, says the report of the—Seizures Sub-Committee... pub-Wshed to-day, had furnished conclusive evidence of an organized trac to those countries from Japan:
The sub-committee noted again the fact that the Japanese authorities were unable to discover how the drugs, legitimately manufactured in Japan, got into the Ileit traMe, and was once again struck by the inadequacy of the sentences passed by Japanese courts on convicted Jo nese traffickers.
The sub-committee repeated its carlier appeal to the Japanese Government to. provide- legislation for Feally deterrent sentences.
conclusion, the repens states that supplies of heroin entering China appear to come chiefly from Dairen,
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