Suppression Committee's Tour The Department of Education of the National Opium Suppression Committee states that a conimission of some twenty persons, headed by Gen, Chang Chih-kiang, Chairman of the National Opium Suppression Committee, left for the North during last week-end for a survey in Horan, Shensi, and Shantung, Con-lerable importance is attached to the work of this commission, as it, hae been the avowed policy of the National Government not so much to formulate Jaws and regulations: as to apply them to actual condi: tions, Similar emphasis was also roted in the resolutions adopted by the recent National Opium Sup-Pression Conference, calling for constant and regular investigations opium-producing areas.
The chief concern of the commission will be to find out the truth about the continuance of poppy cultivation in the North, which by the provisions of the Opium Suppression Act, has become a serious crime, purishable by long terms of imprisonment. An inquiry will be also made into the increasing misuse of narcotics and the mode of transportation of habit-forming. drags, with a view to their preven-
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