The paper refers to indisputable statistics revealing that at Tsinanfu 5,000 politically camouflaged Japanese agents distributed opium even before the outbreak of hostilities.
One of the first measures of the Japanese during the present conflict, the paper states, was to close all hospitals where opium addicts were being treated. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's six-year plan for the fight against opium had thereby been practicely frustrated. Japan was deliberately trying to infect vast Chinese territories with opium. Any eye-witness could notice that in Tientsin, opium shops were to be found where the poison could be bought at very cheap prices In conclusion the paper praises ihe unparalleled measures of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek for fighting opium and stresses the testimony of jhe League Opium Committee that opium represented one of the most decisive weapons of Japan against the Chinese population in the Siuo-Jipanese conflict.—Trans-Ocean
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.