Opium at Hoochow, favours Hayes, present Secretary of the Anti-
hibition and has no faith in " gradual stopping of the habit, (Vid. Int.
it. Sluggett, of Honolulu, stated that medical }) was passed in Hono-an act for its prohibition (except for
lula, but that it was not then and never had been enforced, as it simply encour. of blackmail, (Vid. Me. po). Thin smuggling and was made a source
was said to have been true also in Java.
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