Tientsin, June 32, Three Japanese police officers were shot and wounded in a series of raids. on drug dens here and in Peiping on Thursday morning, the local Japanese Consular Police authorities announced here to-day, Thirty-five Japanese traMiekers in narcotics were rounded up i the two cities. Of these, 29 were seized here "and. the remainder in the old capital. The officers were wounded 'a5 the hunted dope smugglers opened fire on the raiding parties.
The roids, the statement said, w cained out in. conformity with Gaimusho decree of July 1, 1036, prohibiting Japanese nationals from Chgaging in drug traffic in North China, Legal Penalties snails tome 8 sod sca anous een a eae Ce, tees oe Dot Soe fe ore bee anes pass soco Se mos lared a monopoly on opium and licoricing the eultivailon of poppy for the sole purpose of reducing the num ber of opium addicts, although, itis pointed out, Manchouikuo is an' inde-Pendent country and not a-member of the League of Nations, Lits claimed. that the Kwantung Leased Territory alone annually cures 4700 opium addicts thecugh a special slete, gta, noe See Sad cee eer 2 es, eae cee ase Begg og ong som, ese (pee it, carte anaes Strong Protest to Geneva ott estate mone Geneva, June 12, The recent drug" charges" made against Japanese army officers "and soldiers were refuted by "Mr. Yokoyama, the Japanese detegaic, in a doctoration to-day at the concluding Session of "the Opium Consultative Committee of the League of Nations.
uring. the -diseussion on the Eastern situation," Mr. Yokoyama said, "I deliberately' refrained. {rom cing into details of the information Suppited, which seemed tome to be roe re hors toes ote operated heroin factories, employing rae era acre cee coe naa fico i Tohyp_yesedny coot cob, eater Tientsin manufacture anhydrous acid, Bench memes a Tee ts cuon "My silence has been used political propaganda in certain Far Eastern newspapers. For example, the statement by" Tusselt" Pasha, Director of the Central Narcoties Bureau of Egypt, that Japanese bineers and soldiers were becoming rug addicts has been taken to form a large headline.
"in view of these highly regrettable must make a. strong protest. against "this aspersion on the Japanese army, in which no case of drug addiction has ver been Feported:"—Reuter,
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