Ago Smuggled in: Black Records of 30 Towns The recent repor? of the Shantuny branch of the International Anti-
Opium Association reveals conditions. in the province which show no improvenient since the time when the: Black List of narcotic trackers was published. is. very discouraging, and one is tempted to ask whether some of the narcotic drug mancfseturing countries now at Geneva, have any real intention to lessen production wh ther by compalsion or in response Public opinion.
Unfortunately the report docs not give the weight of the amount of arcoties seized, bus in the city of] duvieg the year under review the police seized no fewer than 336 packages of morphia and morphia pills varying in size from '4 half-ounce box to a four-pound tin, and in one ease a small portman tean. The amount seized is significant compared with that used.
OF the 30 country towns dealt with in detail, figures are given relating to opium sellers both retail and n opium dens and drug} and wholesale, morphia pill sellers
stores. deal Hsien 'a wholesale morphia maker named Wang Lo-shan i concerned with a daily sale of 500,000 pills within It seems almost incredible, but with a small army of pedlara' covering daily round, it is quite possible, More Deadly Than Opium In the record of these 30 towns, the habit of morphia and opium is about equally divided. Of course quantity is the destructive clement and this record of Shantung prov what we have always maintained, that once the morphia habit veloped, there will never reversion to opium, unless the forme is absolutely unprocurable, man who swallows a dozen morphia pills a day has swallowed more Physical destruction than the average opium smoker, and he does it without the lors of time involved in the laborious smoking process. Raports from any parte of China show. of easy The desired effect ix produced by a very much smaller quantity. This habit is very notice. fable in the monopoly countries of the East, where owing to the high cost of opium many cool their daily quantum into three parts two are eaten during the day, and the third smoked in the leisure of the evening. great many right-minded people believe that China will again totoly suppress opiam "cultivation, ethers our. it; time alone will" reveal one fact we "can however Jeeriain, China does not manufacta rateotic. drags, therefore every rain of morphia is of foreign origin 1 The Hague Convention who. hate Teall corns from countries sua
Accepted the export and import er. {ieate protocol and yet in spite of this Shantung fe receiving ay much morphia now as fice years aes ounce of morphia from "Great Britain or America has been seized by. the Customs of China for tro years, so these two countries at Toast ure hot participants, and if the others. enforced. their equally ent laws, the. morphia pil fallowers.of North China, would oom be Tett to the pangs of an une tised craving International
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