To the Editor of the font-Cina Dat News'
St—Your editorial of this morning—Japan and Opium"—rightly supports the League of Nations ity attack upon this erying evil. have just returned from an extensive journey through the occupied areas of 'North China. Everywhere the opium gramme is in' full swing. wide open. Mongolian soldiers in Japanese uniform were obviously under the in-nonce of the drug, A Japanese soldier distributed pills (of what nature T cannot say) from the car window all along the Suiyuan Railway. Within full view of the tra we approached Tsingtao mat poppy elds were in bloom. It is here, along the railways, that the Japanese are in full control, There can be no escape from responsibility as there is no effort to escape from detection.
Canuerox Lacy. inghai, June 16.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.