Chenchow, Aug. 30.
The columns of the North-China Herald" have lately contained a de enunciation of the way in which the opium laws are being evaded Hunan. That there is secret smoking no one will deny. But proclamations have been posted all over this district that after the fourteenth day of the seventh month all smokers, old and young, are to give up the habit.. There can be no doubt that, this is a strict prohibition, if we may judge by the number of smokers who have come to the Presbyterian Hospital to break off the habit. I do not see that any opium is now sold in this district and the bunting down of opium smokers appears to very keen. There is even a report that young men found smoking are to be shot while the old and wealthy are to be heavily fined.
In Yuinhsing, one of the counties governed by Chenchow, I hear of the same strict adherence to the prohibition Inws, as also in Kuei-hangchow district. where much plum was grown last year. Here {here has been wholesale confixen-
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