In the Financial Conference bel in June, the National. AnticOpium [Assocation was represented by its Seeretars, Bit. Garfield: Huang and Eke question of opium suppression tras thoroughly discussed.
Sr. TV. Soong, chairman of the conference, said that the Nationalist Government were quite determined suppress opti, nat for the Dur cide all money" raised (or farther raising revenue, but seting
Sappression. and edveational pur. poses, A National Opium Suppress Fon Committee he suid, would formed, on Which the Ministers of Foreign Afters, Interior and Justice would be asked to serve.
Mr. Garfield Huang, the secretary of the Assocation, went to Nanking Fast week to visit the Conimissioners the Government. concerned. and Suggested to them a programme of plum suppacssion containing. the {Slowing ten poits:—
(Q)_ To organize National Opium st renton Commiice wih Gndereake the full responsibility" fo the total Suppression Chinas The Fepresentatives from the people.
To. cancel the. present "opium "An effective one. from opium suppress huppressisin amd educa (7) To investigate the state of the' trade in me ther narcotic owing al the facts 10 the fo ing: International, Opium Conteren "Severely punish officials who encourage the, cultivation Shear Hae, suppressing every province. beginning" from this pre my call set, pen, a At Nanking, Mr. Garfield Huang held a long conversation with Mr. Hsueh Tu-pi, Minister of Home Affairs, and Gen, New Yung-chien, Commissioner of the Nationalist} Government, regarding the question of opium suppression. Both Mr. Hsuelt and Gen. New said emphatic cally that the Nationalist Government had decided to revise the present opium suppression policy and take definite stops for the total supressioin of opium in China in accordance with the recommendations of the National Anti-Opium Associa. tion.
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