Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1946 — Page 9

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‘War Crimes Court

Hears How Japs Used Dope. to Weaken Foe

Testimony Reveals Drug Addiction Was Encouraged in Areas to Be Seized

By WALLACE R. DEVEL Times: Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The Japanese used narcotics as weapons in their war in the far east. \ They encouraged drug addiction in areas they planned to invade, so that their intended victims would be too weak to resist the Japanese armies when they struck. i The Japanese used narcotics as instrumerits of national policy on an even wider scale in these areas after they had seized them. They debased the peoples of

Japanese imported opium from Iran. One of the Japanese favorite sales L methods in occupied areas was to combine narcotics with sex. Hired Young Girls They hired young girls to act as attendants in the opium dens they opened. These girls served as both waitresses and prostitutes. The Japanese also used previously established houses of prostitution as outlets for narcotics. This “sales technique” was intended to encourage drug addiction among the largest possible number fer and cheaper for the Japanese to of young men. rule them. The Japanese also placed narTWO: The drug traffic earned otis on sale in pawn shops in the huge profits, both for the Japanese, ..as they occupied. government and for the individuals They further saw to it that hoswho carried on the business. pitals gave morphine freely to paPrepared For Further Use tients. This created the craving for The international war crimes | drugs among many Chinese and trials now going on in Japan have made them into addicts. brought out these and other parts Traitors Peddle Dope

of the story.of how the Japanese used narcotics as weapons in their| The Japanese used large numbers

strategy ‘of world conquest. |of Chinese, Korean and other local

i traitors as dope peddlers. Experts believed the Japanese | pi were preparing to use the same| Ine “Asia Development commit-

weapons and tactics against the|tee” was in charge of opium dis-

such areas by en-

to use drugs to the greatest pos sible extent. The Japanese did this for two reasons: ONE: Drug adaddiction broke the peoples of thé

Mr. Deuel

Bl U. 8, Russia and other enmies—if | tribution in China. Officers of this 8 they had not, in fact, already a included the Japanese

gun to do so. prime minister as president, and the The Chinese had been struggling | ministers @®f war, navy, foreign af-

§| for years to suppress the drug traf. | fairs and finance as vice presidents.

fic and had made much progress in An official U. 8. government re-

8| their attempts, according to testi-|Port introduced as evidence in the fimony at the war crimes trials,

war crimes trials paints a detailed However, the Japanese rescinded Picture of how the Japanese used

8! all Chinese restrictions on narcotics drugs as implements of policy. gin the areas they occupied.

The Japanese had built up a big Forbids Japs to Use Drugs |opium center in their concession in They then deliberately encouraged Antung, even before they seized the production and sale of drugs. | Manchuria in 1831-32, the report They strictly forbade Japanese to | S8Y

{harshly with dealers they selling to Japanese, and with such traffic in drugs. {of their own people as they caught | using drugs.

VS. use narcotics, however, and dealt| After they occupied Manchuria, caught | the Japanese greatly expanded the

Open Opium Dens Before the Japanese occupation, , The Japanese went into the nar-|there were 20 dens in the Chinese cotics trade on a highly efficient, part of Antung and 500 in the big-business basis. Japanese concession. They granted loans at favorable] As soon as they had established interest rates to farmers who would | their control of the city, the Japacultivate poppies, built elaborate big nese opened opium dens “on all

{laboratories and factories to de-|leading streets,” according to the

velop and manufacture opium de- | report, and most of them employed rivatives, and opened hundreds of young girls as waitresses. opium dens and other “retail oute} “By the spring of 1933 the 20 had lets.” grown to 145 and the 500 to 684.

To supplement local supplies, the! The population of the Antung dis-

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Ontario Couple Die on Gallows

Convicted in Death Of Fruit Merchant |

WELLAND, Ontario, Dec. § (0.

P.) —Mrs, George Popowich, mother | of two teen-aged daughters, and | her husband were hanged in the

moonlit courtyard of the Welland | county jail early today for the mur- | der of Louis Nato, a neighbor.

The two were convicted of fatally | beating Mr. Nato, who employed Mrs. Popowich as a housekeeper bee] fore she was married, last June 16 and robbing him of $180,

Mrs, Popowich, the 11th woman to | be hanged in Canada, went to her | death at 1 a. m,, 45 minutes after | her husband «was executed on the! same gallows. “God bless you all,” she murmured as the trap was sprung.

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Popowich was silent and grim as jail guards led him up the gallows | steps. “ Mr, Nato, a fruit merchant, identified Mr, and Mrs. Popowich as his killers shortly before he died of a brutal beating inflicted by the couple. He sald the two lured hin into their automobile and took him to a lonely. fleld where they beat him brutally, trussed him up and left him to die. He eventually freed himself and made his way to a farm house. He died five days later. Mrs. Popowich is the first woman to be executed in Ontario since 1035.

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