The Wanganui Chronicle MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1937. JAPANESE PROMOTION OF OPIUM TRAFFIC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 247, 18 October 1937, Page 6

The Wanganui Chronicle MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1937. JAPANESE PROMOTION OF OPIUM TRAFFIC.

'TTIE denial voiced by Mr. Bunshirow Suzuki of the Asahi newspaper that the charge of the London Times that Japanese were demoralising the Chinese population is unfortunately specious. There is too much evidence that the Japanese are culpable in this respect, not by neglect, but by intention. The evidence docs not rest upon Chinese evidence but upon the evidence of other nationals. At the meeting of the Opium Committee of the League of Nations held in June Mr. Fuller, the United States member, and T. W. Russell Pasha, the Egyptian member, made vigorous statements about the production and sale of drugs in China’s northern and north-eastern provinces under Japanese military occupation. It is not Chinese propaganda, but well attested fact, that Japan is demoralising the Chinese people by the encouragement of the opium traffic.