London, March 23.
In the House of Commons today, Sir J. D. Rees asked the following question: "In view of the fact that there appears to have been an extensive recrudescence of poppy-growing in the Provinces of Pukien and Yunnan, and that, owing to. the disorder in China, many other provinces are also drifting back to the situation preceding the Opium Treaties, is if proposed to continue the opium policy of India whereby the people of India are taxed more highly and the people of China reap no advantage?"
Mr. Montagu, Secretary for India, replied that it was not proposed to change the opium policy of the Raj as the result of the recrudescence of poppy cultivation in China. The matter w: now covered by the Hague vention, under which, as the Chinese Government prohibited the import of opium, the Indian Government was bound to prevent the export of Indian opium to China.—Reuter.
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