The village dwellers in. area are mostly farmers and lat owners, For many hundreds of years they have lived narrow and exclusive lives and seldom felt concern for the ills and hardships of others, Sweating barrowman had to find their own way for crossing open irrigation water runs and ditches, while carters with heavily-laden arts had to find some way of their own to repair broken culverts, deeply out and water washed roads." Public Spirited help was greatly "lacking. Recently, however, this attitude of the farmers toward their surroundings has undergone a rapid change. The New Life Movement, the changed conduct of soldiers and ofMcials can recount for some of it, The farmers have been organized and asked to cooperate in the repairing of roads, grading highways, hauling materials for. fortifications" and planting of trees; not only local but national interest has been ayoused. whence they are also exported to the United States, Egypt, and countries all over the globe, A huge percent ge of the world's drugs are of Japanese origin, In the Japanese concessions in North China, there are 200 Sapanese-run heroine' factories, em~ Ploying 1500 Japanese experts and 10,000 Chinese workmen, Those principally affected by the drug habit, Mr, Russel affirmed, were Japanese oticers and soldiers, Col, Charles Sharman, Chief of the Canadian Narcotic Service since 1027, told of the drastic measures the Canadian Government has been obaged {0 take to stop imports of drugs into the Dominion, At present a large scheme of forti-fed villages is being launched. Old fortified villages are being repaired and many villages never walled before are being selected as fortified centres. It requires a tremendous amount of labour and material and will in some cases be many months before completion. There will eventually be from three to five walled villages in each district (chu) and from 40 to 50 in each hsien. Actually millions of days of labour will required to complete these walled villages and the ce-operation of tens of thousands of village farmers dally working in a common cause, Allegations Denied Peiping, June 4.
Everything possible was being done to remedy the situation, declared an official of the Japanese Embassy here to-day when questioned concerning the allegations made In Geneva about the Japanese drug trade in North China. He admitted, however, that there were difficulties, such as the need to find alternative occupations for those engaged in the trade. Deportation, he said, merely trans-
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