Tientsin, said Mr. Russell, has become the world's centre of drug pro-Guction and toxicomania, with over 4,000 opium dens and heroine stores, reports Havas, Fifty-thousand Japanese and Chinese paid visits dally to the 300 illegal stores selling heroine in Harbin, he said. 'There are 102 opium dene in that city and Poochiatien "which sell opium. 'The drugs eae' from Mukden and Dairen, ferred it from one place to another.
The statement, made by Thomas Wentworth Russell Pasha, Director of the Egyptian Central ' Narcotics Bureau that Japanese army officers and soldiers were becoming drug ad-diets was ridiculed by the same official, who described it as "insult-chiot of the Japanese Consular police here, about "200 Japanese and Korean hareotics manufacturers and traders were prosecuted in Peiping alone last year, some of whom were deported or imprisoned and others fined.
He did not know, he added, how many Japanese subjects were still: engaged in the business, but expressed the opinion that far more Chinese than Japenese were involved.
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