Police authorities state that most of the patients admitted on the frst. day were heroin addicts, who had obtained their supplies' from the smugglers who specialize in the heroin trade, obtaining the drug from Japan and Manchoukuo. Few opium smokers are said to have been among the patients.
"The heroin addicts take their drug with cigarettes which they smok fand the rapid and disastrous results from physical and moral points of view in the use of this drug, are too well known to be dilated on here, The authorities did not halt their drive with the rounding up of the drug. addicts. A determined attack was then made on known tramickers, with the result that seventeen of the more prominent are now under arrest, awaiting the decision of the Nanking authorities as to their nal disposal. There were reports that the seventeen had been sentenced to death and that there was to be a mass execution to serve as a dread warning to those who had escaped detection. The authorities declare, however, that no decision is to be taken until the Central Government thas passed final. judgment.
Tu the meantime the action taken by the authorities has thoroughly. alarmed drug operators and the remainder of the 70,000 drug addicts who are among the residents of Peking.
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