Ugly Rumour as Possible Foundation for General Move by Authorities: Manchu Products Used non Our Quit Cossesroxoear Peking, Sept. 14.
Peking was shocked, from it's autumn "dullness a week or 50 ago, when the authorities announced the execution of a prominent. police off-cer who had been found guilty of oMcially stated to have taken place after confirmation of the death sentence had been received from General Chiang Kalshek. It was also declared that the municipal authorities were planning 'a widespread campaign against the drug tram in the former metropolis.
At the time of the execution and for a few days afterwards, there were reports to the effect that the executed man had sought to double-eross prominent figures in the local drug ring, and that in retaliation he had been ut to death.
In order to refute this ugly and most probably unfounded report, the municipal authorities announced their scheme for rounding up drug traffickers and the enforced cure of all known drug addicts.
model treatment centre under the control of the Municipal Health Bureau was opened in the Tung Tal area outside the Hata Men. The centre consisted of a number of Chinese style buildings "containing wards for men, separate wards for women, and special emergency wards for the treatment of those in an advanced. stage of narcotic poisoning About 600 patients can be" treated fat the centre, but, the authorities hope to enlarge the hospital to enable the medical authorities to deal with at least 800 patients at a time, On the first day very nearly a hundred known addicts were handed over to"the centre by the Bureau of Public Safety, who had rounded the victims up.
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