British Police Crack Down On Hongkong Drug Traffic
Hongkong 'U.Pi The Brit
ish hve cracked down on the
narcotics traffic in Konekor.g.
Eat the fight is by no means
won.
Last year. 11.000 persons were
convicted here on narcotics
charges. Some 1 500 pounds of
opium was seized. Police pulled
as many as 1 .000 raids a month.
But the British privately ad
mit the traffic ha? not been stop
ped, nor v.ii! it be completely
shut off until opium is elimin
ated at the .snurce in the poppy
fiei'is of Southeast Asia, for in
stance. In?inua!ion and outright ac-cu.-ationi
that the Hongkong aov
errment tolerates or at least does
li'tie bimit the flow of nar
cotics through here are not true.
In December. 1954. the police
established a special bureau to
coordinate the fight against r.ar
cot.cs. Since the bureau was set
up. the number of convictions
and seizures has jumped fharp-
Plans Made for
Gifted Students
MaijiiaMan. Kan. -U Ri
Kan.-.'i State college this fall
will offer a special program ad
apted to the needs of gifted stu
. dents.
John C. Weaver, dean of the
school of arts and sciences, said
the program would provide for
both special courses and special
counselling fer particularly able
students. It will be available,
he said, to those in the upper
five per cent of their college
class.
"The particular challenge in
higher education today is the
training of our best minds." he
said. "Such individuals are so
ciety's most valuable commod
ity. We believe our new pro
gram is a step toward providing
the best education possible for
our students at all levels of com
petence. Freshmen entering on the hon
or program, on the basis of their
high school grades and scores
made in entrance tests, will he
assigned to special advisers in
their major field and a special
four-year course of study will be
worked out for each individual.
Students already in college
may compete to enter the honors
program if their records indi
cate they are at the top of their
class.
The honors course will permit
student? to by-pass elementary
courses in which the individual
already has competence.
"While the program does not
propose to shorten the four years
of study necessary to obtain a
decree." Weaver said, "it does
allow the g;f:ed students to re;ich
goals beyond the ordinary limits
of undergraduate education." j
A!l Said To Have
Love for Poetry
Philadelphia (U.R) Every
man and woman has an Inborn
love for poetry, says Mary
O'Connor, herself a poetess of i
some renown.
It is the universal love for po
etry, she explained, that impels
a man to memorize the lusty
lines of "The Shooting of Dan
gerous Dan McGrew." just as a
scholar will make the study of
Shakespeare his life's work.
Mary, who directs the activ
ities of the American Poetry
League from a hospital bed in
the Philadelphia Home of In
curables, lately has undertaken
to make Poetry Day. celebrated
in Pennsylvania on Oct. 15. an
international observance.
"A land without poetry would
be unthinkable." she said. "The
hunlreds of varieties may differ
with the individual's taste, but
few people have gone through
life without saving a few choice
clippings of poetry they partic
ulars loved."
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EYEWITNESS Dr. Arthur
Besiey holds field glasses
through which he saw a
woman sun bather bludg
eoned to death in a Chicago
park by a husky man who is
still at large. Besiey told po
lice he was looking at the
park from his 15th story
apartment when the man
jumped from the bushes,
looped his shirt around the
woman's neck and struck
jDer.
ly and they are still rising.
By Ship and Air
During 1955, nearly twice as
many dope cases came before the
four's as during 1154. Seizures
of ray opium, for example,
climbed from 65 pounds in 1954
to 1.500 pounds in 1055. Dunn:
dence opium enters Hongkong
directly from Red China. There
has not been a seizure in years
of narcotics being smuggled into
Hongkong by junk from Canton
or across the China-Hongkong
border.
The narcotics are smuggled by
; the f;rt three months of 1956 snip and airliner, and, signifi
i alone. 450 pounds of opium, her- cantly. virtually all the ships and
oin and morphine were grabbed. : Planes on which narcotics have
j It is i;.-l;evr-d that the bulk of bcen found stopped off at least
:the opi .n: that arrive., here is bri?!!' in Bangkok.
! sru:: n in the area along the Last year, one cae involved
Thailand -Burma-Lao--- Vietnam - me 400 pounds of opium be
; China border. The area is so in- ir.g found in suitcases aboard a
j accessible, however, that little commercial airliner. The bag
evidence has been gathered as B&ge had not been manifested.
to which country most of the The pilot did not know he was
poppy fields are m. carry ins extra cargo,
j It is not true, according to the, Heroin Smoking
i British, that thre is any evi- Smugglers are ingenious. Op
ium from which morphine and
heroin are derived, is concealed
in plaster busts, oranges, pillows
and even in firecrackers.
The latest gimmick is prob
ably the most ingenious. Mor
phine compressed into small
blocks was first discovered in
Japan in 1954. Last year, a U.S.
Air Force sergeant was arrested
carrying similar blocks from
Bangkok to Hongkong.
The blocks are four by three
by one inches in size and weigh
only eight ounces. The loose
powder mixed with another sub
stance is compressed into a mould
and hardened. Then it is wrap
ped in tight-fitting cellophane.
It can be carried in a pocket.
One of these blocks is equiv
alent to five pounds of opium
with 10 per cent morphine con
tent. Police here have not jet
sorted out the method used to
compress th powder.
Just what percentage of the
narcotics entering Hongkong
stays here is impossible to esti
mate. But the use of heroin has
doubled during the past year.
The reasons probably are that
heroin smoking is less obvious,
requires virtually no equipment
and gives a greater bang to the
addict. The total for the colony
is undoubtedly far greater, how
ever. Significantly, only one ad
dict was confined last year un
der 20 years of age.
Who Profits?
A heroin smoker actually
needs only the heroin and a strip
of tinfail. The powder is placed
in the tinfoil, which is then
rolled like a cigarette. A match
is burned under the tinfoil and
Thursday, July 26, 1958
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the addict inhales. It takes less
than a minute for the whole op
eration. Heroin is manufactured here.
Last year, four plants were raid
ed and so far this year another
four have been uncovered.
One police source said the
campaign against narcotics has
become so heated that many
heroin chamists are leaving
Hongkong for less precarious
points. Some of these chemists
are remarkably good at their job. 1
In fact, one was so good, that
police chemists tried to get him :
to explain his methods. He de
clined. ;
The sale price for heroin here
runs from $50 to S65 per ounce
depending on the quality. Mor
phine is slightly cheaper. Opium i
goes at S120 to S200 per pound.
depending on the morphine con
tent. The best market for opium is
the United States, where it sells
for S900 per pound. Prices taper
off elsewhere, such as in Singa
pore and India.
Heroin is far more expensive.
In the United States, the whole
sale price runs anywhere from
S300 to $500 per ounce. By the
time the peddlers have diluted
it, the heroin retails at an even
higher price.
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