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Export of Narcotics to China LEAGUE COMMITTEE “Criminal Carelessness” Found By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright (Received May 21, 7.50 p.m.) Geneva, May 21. Japan’s "criminal carelessness” in permitting the export of drugs, particularly to China, was strongly (■ensured by the League of Nafic-.s Opium Cnniniittee. The United states representative stated that sufficient acid anhydride, which is the base of heroin, was sent to China last year to provide between 30 and 60 times the world’s legitimate needs. Mostly it came from Japan. The United States and Canadian representatives said that they had evidence of organised traffic in narcotics in their countries from Japan. The committee again appeals to Japan to impose more severe sentences on traffickers.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 201, 22 May 1936, Page 11
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