The Archive · 1939

Drug Addicts Japanese Police

Accompanied by "several plain-Five Thousand Men Treated clothes Japanese police officials, In Nanking members of the Shanghai Municipal Police yesterday effected the arrest Geneva, June 2. of a Formosan student named Wong at Five thousand Japanese soldiers Chinan University at 528 Connaught were being nursed in Nanking hospi-Road. Later he was handed over to [tals and treated against their addict Japanese Consular Police, who had tion to drugs, the Chinese Delegate, requested his apprehension.

Dr. Victor Hoo, stated before the After Wong had been removed from League Opium Commission today. the university American marines, in He emphasized that Japanese troops whose sector the University is situat-in China had themselves become drug ed, commenced an investigation and fiends and he referred to the Japan-were accompanied by one of the ese Army order forbidding Japanese principals of the school to Gordon soldiers, ur.der pain of severe punish-Road Folice Station where it was ment, to use dope. explained that the arrest had been He also alluded to the Japanese carried out with the full authority declaration that the Mipponese of the S.M.P. The reason for the authorities in China intended to obman's arrest is unknown. tain $30,000,000 from drug traffic and trade in the occupied areas of China.

The occupied areas total only a Atlantic Clipper on third of all Chinese territory, Dr. Hoo pointed out. And before the intro-Last Lap of Flight duction of the Chinese Government's Horta, Azores, June 2. six-year plan to kill off drug traffick-The Atantic Clipper, en route to ing, China had obtained only $20,000,- Port Washington to end the second 000 annually from the whole of Chi-complete trans-Atlantic commercial nese territory, he emphasized. flight in history, landed here at 2.20 Japanese Delegate Not Present pnu. today. It remained until 434 In conclusion, he voiced pleasure pin. when it took off on its last over the congratulations addressed to lap.

China for-her efforts to reduce the The first commercial flight across drug traffic in her territory. And he the Atlantic to Europe and back to regretted that the Japanese delegat^ the United States, was completed to the Commission was absent, as he just two hours before the Atlantic "could have helped clarify the situa-Clipper took off from Port Washingtion." {on on its voyage. The Yankee Earlier during the session, the Clipper, sister Pan-American Airways American delegate, Mr. Fuller, accused craft, had accomplished the return the Macao authorities of negligence trip.—Havas. and thus being greatly responsible ior the illegal transport of drugs to the United States from the Far East.

Vesuvius in Eruption In reply, Senor Rodriguo de Magalhaes, Portuguese delegate, promised that he would communicate Mr. Fuller's observations to his Government. He renewed assurances that the Portuguese authorities in Macao would enforce the strictest control over drug traffic in the colony.—Havas.

Naples, June 2.

The mighty Vesuvius, most consistently active volcano, went on a minor rampage tonight, belching flames and dense smoke. Red-hot lava sky-rocketed and poured down the sides of the mountain throughout the night from the principal crater, The authorities said that the Rumanian Government Backed in Elections

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