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COMPLAINT AGAINST JAPAN HUGE QUANTITIES GOING TO CHINA iU.I’.A, by Elec, Tel. Cooyrtsht) GENEVA, May 21. Japan's “criminal carelessness” in permitting the export of drugs, particularly to China, is strongly censured by the League Opium committer. The United Suites renresentative stated that sufficient- oc-’d of anhydride, which is the base of heroin, had! been sent to CTUna l . last year to provide between thirty and sixty times the world’s legitimate needs, mostly from' Japan.
The United States and Canadian representatives said tlu.~N they had evidence o'.- organised Traffic In. narcotics in they- countries from Japan. The committee again appeals to Japan to impose more severe sentences on traffickers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12867, 22 May 1936, Page 5
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