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Show Japanese to weaken the population of overrun areas by spreading drug addiction. "Competent reports have long indicated," in-dicated," says the army unit's newspaper news-paper just received from the Pacific, Pacif-ic, "that the Jap soldier, weary of the hardships of war, has often fallen prey to the drug in an effort to get the thrill it supposedly gives at first "Jap interest in a cure for the habit, strange in view of the fact they have helped to spread it more successfully than any other agency in the modern world, indicates that the dope problem may have grown serious in their army." ' Jap Soldiers Victims of Opium Habit, Tokyo Hint WASHINGTON. Hints come out of Tokyo that portions of the Japanese Japa-nese army may have fallen victim to the opium curse the Japs themselves them-selves spread for profit in China and other countries invaded by Nippon. Nip-pon. Frequent broadcasts announce discovery of new drugs said to break the narcotic habit more effectively than any other known medicine. The news agency Domei says opium taking tak-ing is a "filthy" habit and brazenly describes it as having been introduced intro-duced "from the west." American army units in the Pacific Pa-cific have concluded that at least some Japanese troops must have become addicted to the opium Nipponese Nip-ponese profiteers introduced in conquered con-quered lands. Ordinarily the opium opi-um concession is one of the first business ventures undertaken by the civilian puppet governments or military mil-itary dictjUorsWpsi(tsetupbythe( |
