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MILLIONS IN MANCHURIA NARCOTICS SOLD OPENLY WASHINGTON, (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) Sept. 5. The Chungking representative of the New York Times says that, according to the spokesman of the Ministry of the Interior. 13,000,000 of the 30,000,000 Northern Manchurians have become opium addicts as the result of the Japanese policy of poisoning Chinese minds and bodies. Since the creation of the puppet regime in North China narcotics have been sold openly under Japanese supervision, with shops springing up everywhere. The Japanese in the Shansi Province have instituted a system of bartering cotton cloths, rice and salt for opium.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25014, 7 September 1942, Page 2
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