BLE. Cheng Min-kan, Vice-President of the Court of Censors, recently removed from his post because he continued to smoke opium, has now been permitted to return to the Censorate on the ground that he has entirely broken off the habit. The acceptance by China of the British Government's proposal concerning the suppression of opium cultivation in the Chinese Empire, concurrently with the reduction of imported opium from India, is regarded as a sure sign that the Chinese Government is determined to sacrifice its opium revenue and to pat down the abuse in the Empire.
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