Reports of Traveller in those Provinces Peking, May 1.
The General Secretary of the International Anti-Opium Association, Peking, has received from a correspondent, who has been travelling recently in Kansu and Shensi, the following information "Poppy was seen growing in Kiangsu in three hsien, Fukiang, Tienshui, and Tsinan. In Tsinan, the military, under General Kong of Tsinchow, not only urged the people to plant poppy, but also planted it themselves. In Shensi, poppy was found growing in Langchow, where a large acreage was under cultivation, Chienyang, Kueichou, Meihsien, Fufang, Wukong, Hsingping, Hsienyang and Changon. In a few fields east of Sianfu it was being uprooted, the farmers saying that they had been ordered to destroy it.
"Last year in Hsingpinghsien the magistrate, in obedience to mandates, put out by the Tuchun, Njordered the destruction of the poppy, and for so doing was arrested, brought before the Tuchun and imprisoned. This year in this hsien the people have planted large crops without interference."—Reuter.
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