The Archive · 1938

GIRL DRUG ADDICT DEPORTED

Young Korean Sent Home by Japanese Authorities Continuing their vigorous campaign against narcotic smugglers and addicts, Japanese authorities yesterday deported to Korea a 23-year old Korean girl drug addict.

The girl, Miss Eiko Kin, 23, was put on board the s. Nagasaki Maru by Japanese Consular Police to take the heroin cure in her native land. The girl came to China in 1932, visited Shanghai for a time then went to Hankow, where she had 2 love affair with a French sai Returning to Shanghai in of last year, the girl and her sweetheart made their home in the French Concession. However, little by ttle heroin intruded its ugly shape in their love nest and gnawed away the girl's health as well as her romance.

A week ago the Japmese authorities deported one Shinoda Ishizaki, 32, Japanese ex-policeman who also s a heroin user.

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