DRUG TRAFFIC
SECRET WAR STARTED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILISATION. JAPANESE POLICY EXPOSED. I By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 26. The Treasury Department's report on the international drug traffic charges Japan with starting a secret war against civilisation in 1931 by using narcotics. The illicit opium traffic was an instrument of the Japanese policy for a decade with a view to corrupting the western nations and also weakening and enslaving invaded countries and countries earmarked for invasion. The Japanese Government had organised opium smuggling into the United States, Canada and Mexico, and was now flooding the conquered parts of the Philippines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1942, Page 4
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