Tientsin Japanese Concession' the Nerve Centre for Vast Opium and Narcotic Industry Nanking, Feb, 21, Startling revelations about—the appalling nareotte situation In the Japanese Concession in Tientsin are made by Mr. Marcus Mervine in the atest issue of the Information Bul-Jelln published by the Council International Affairs, "Mr. Mervine, who has made an exhaustive and first-hand study of this problem, is an_American resident in tientsin.
Entitled "Japanese Concession 1n 'Tientsin and the Narcotle Trade," the Bulletin contains a graphic, survey of the so-called "Yang Hangs" (Foreiga firms) in the Japanese Concession—mainly heroin and opium dives, num Dering well above 200; in addition to many' hotels, shops and other estab-Tishments where drugs are openly sold, On Hashidate Street, the heart of the heroin belt in North China, the writer soys that he has purchased noreoties in virtually every one of the "Yang Hangs" there, House runners prowl this street every night seeking new customers.
"The Japanese Concession in Tien tsin for many years has been the headquarters and the nerve centre for avast opium and nareotle industry that has spread its tentacles through out the Far East and has direct con-Rections with the narcotic rings in Europe and the Americas," Mr, Mer-vine points out.
"During the past three yours tuis Industry has grown to such an extent that the Japanese Concession has practically become the heroin capital the world and has led to a grow-Ing belief that narcotics are being employed by Japan as an instrument of national polley designed to weaken find debauch the Chinese race,"
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