DRUGS FOLLOW GUNS AND BAYONETS
(Rec. 11.10 a.m.) TOKIO, July 29. Japanese guns and bayonets in China were advance agents for hypodermic needles and opium pipes, said the history professor at Nanking University, Dr. M. S. Bates, of Ohio, giving evidence before the War Crimes Tribunal. Nanking’s drug traffic was formerly negligible, but less than a year after the Japanese invasion, 6000 ounces of opium were selling daily and drug merchants were netting the equivalent of 3,000,000 dollars monthly from sales of heroin. The Japanese depended on the revenue from the sale of drugs to'finance their puppet governments.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1946, Page 7
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