DRUG TRAFFIC IN ASIA
Hong Kong Said To Be Centre (N.Z. Preu Association— Copyright) (Rec. 8 pin.) NEW YORK, March 21. Heroin, introduced to the Chinese by the Japanese at the turn of the century as "a cure for opium addicts,” is the greatest narcotics scourge of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, according to a North American Newspaper Alliance report from Hong Kong. Although Hong Kong is the centre of the drug traffic In Asia and the trans-shipment point for much or the opium, heroin, cocaine, and morphine smuggled into the United States, it has a critical narcotics problem of its own.
According to a report of the Hong Kong Reform Club, there are some 60,000 drug addicts, or about one out of every 50 residents. The report, prepared by two doctors and a businessman, recommends the establishment of special hospital wards and a rehabilitation camp for the cure of addicts. Last year, among all criminals
arrested by the police in Hong Kong, 18,000 were found to be victims of dope addiction. The addicts, the report said, were easy targets for the illegal Chinese secret societies which thrive on crime.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28543, 24 March 1958, Page 15
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