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INTERNATIONAL: War & Poppies

Japan has invaded China not only with men and guns but with narcotics. Manchuria, captured by Japan, has become a narcotics "arsenal." Japanese consulates in China are distributing centres for opium. Japanese Army trucks have transported opium for the drug traffic.

These charges were made last week by Chinese Representative Dr. Victor Hoo Chi-tsai before the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium at Geneva. Unsubstantiated, they might have been considered simply another "atrocity" charge made by an invaded nation against the invaders. Quick to confirm these atrocities, however, even...

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