London, Oct. 12.
"It is disquieting to learn that a nation, which still professes a desire te regenerate the Far East by its example, should be so blind to the moral and physical damage which is being wrought under its aegis," an editorial in "The Times" t referring to Japan, on the report of the League of Nations Committee on traffic in narcotics. The report has just reached England and the United States.
The Chinese of North China and Manchoukuo are the principal suf-forers from this deplorable state of affairs, the editorial proceeds.
At Harbin and Fuchiatien there were lately over a hundred license opium saloons and about a thousand heroin dens.
In single street in the Japanese Concession in Tientsin, there are more than 50 heroin shops, where unadulterated heroin can be purchased at one-tenth of the prices now being fetched in Egypt.
It is now calculated, "The Times" states, that 90 per cent, of the world's illicit white drugs come from Manchoukuo and those provinces in North China which the Japanese are over-running. Tientsin has been the centre of a vast distributive trade conducted under Japanese official protection.
On the other hand, in Japan and Korea the laws against the sale and cultivation of narcotics are strictly enforced and drug addiction is rare,
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